Provide: Mets including DH Martinez on 1-year deal
Mets, J.D. Martinez agree to 1-year, $12M deal, source says Jorge Castillo, ESPN Workers CreatorMar 21, 2024, 09:27 PM ET Shut ESPN baseball reporter. Lined the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post sooner than covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the
Mets, J.D. Martinez agree to 1-year, $12M deal, source says
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Jorge Castillo, ESPN Workers CreatorMar 21, 2024, 09:27 PM ET
- ESPN baseball reporter. Lined the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post sooner than covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Cases from 2018 to 2024.
The Fresh York Mets and designated hitter JD Martinez are in agreement on a one-year, $12 million contract, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. The deal is pending a bodily.
Martinez provides the Mets’ lineup a proven vitality source in the inspire of slugger Pete Alonso one week sooner than Opening Day. And he’ll discontinue it at a steep good buy.
Fresh York pays Martinez ideal $4.5 million this season, a source said. He then will procure $1.5 million deferred per year from 2034 thru 2038. The Mets, lengthy rumored to beget passion in Martinez, beget been ready for his ticket to tumble adequate to their liking to mitigate the luxurious tax penalty for this season. Fresh York is projected to beget basically the most provocative payroll in the majors for the 2d consecutive year.
Coming off a irritating 2022 season with the Boston Red SoxMartinez enjoyed a bounce-inspire All-Star season with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2023 on a one-year, $10 million deal. Martinez outperformed the contract, clubbing 33 house runs with 103 RBIs and an .893 OPS in 113 video games while reuniting alongside with his longtime hitting coach, Robert Van Scoyoc.
Martinez, 36, has a occupation .287 batting average over 13 seasons with the Dodgers, Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros.
As appropriate as Martinez become as soon as for the Dodgers remaining season, the group’s preference become as soon as continuously ideal a one-year commitment. The conception all alongside become as soon as to pursue Shohei Ohtani in free company to step in as DH. The Dodgers nabbed Ohtani in December, solidifying the possibility that Martinez, basically the most provocative DH on the free agent market no longer named Ohtani, would play in other places in 2024.
Extra and extra teams beget preferred to cycle every-day trouble gamers thru the designated hitter residing to give them lighter workdays in residing of devoting the bulk of their DH plate appearances to 1 player. But Martinez has proved to be an correct adequate hitter to withhold down the honest himself; he didn’t seem in the outfield in any game in 2022 and had most provocative three video games there remaining season.
The Fresh York Post first reported Martinez’s agreement with the Mets.
ESPN’s Buster Olney contributed to this document.
