Japanese star Kodai Senga and New York Mets reach 5-year, $75 million agreement: Report

The 29-year-old Senga played brilliantly for Nippon Professional Baseball of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks for 11 seasons, posting a record of 104-51 with a 2.42 ERA in 1,3402 3 innings over 275 starts. He boasts a split-fingered fastball known as "the Ghost Fork" because it vanishes before the plate and a fastball that has reached triple digits.

He will assist in completing one of the best starting staffs in the National League, one that has been strengthened by the free agent signing of left-hander Jose Quintana, who unites incumbent authority Max Scherzer, American League Cy Young winner Justin Verlander and right-hander Carlos Carrasco.

The Mets completed a hectic week with the addition of right-handed reliever David Robertson and the re-signing of centre fielder Brandon Nimmo to eight-year, $162 million contracts, according to the first report from SNY on the Senga signing. The signings took the Mets' payroll above the $300 million mark, which had previously been the most in baseball.




By aggregating the average yearly value of all of their contracts, the Mets' competitive-balance-tax payroll is estimated to be roughly $345 million. If that's the case, the Mets will face a luxury tax penalty that has never been seen before: A 90% tax rate applies to expenditures between $233 million and $253 million, $8.4 million to those between $253 million and $273 million, $15 million to those between $273 million and $293 million, and $46.8 million to those above $293 million. The Mets' overall CBT bill is $76.2 million, and their total payroll exceeds $421 million.

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