{"id":419001,"date":"2022-12-06T03:53:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=419001"},"modified":"2022-12-06T04:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:42:44","slug":"ap-source-verlander-agrees-to-2-year-contract-with-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ap-source-verlander-agrees-to-2-year-contract-with-mets","title":{"rendered":"AP source: Verlander agrees to 2-year contract with Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Verlander agreed to an $86.7 million, two-year contract with the New York Mets on Monday, reuniting the AL Cy Young Award winner with Max Scherzer and giving the team a high-profile replacement for Jacob deGrom. The contract is worth $43,333,333 per season and includes a vesting player option for 2025 at $35 million, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because there was no immediate announcement. Verlander, who turns 40 in February, leaves World Series champion Houston to step in for deGrom, who left New York after nine seasons when he agreed to a $185 million, five-year contract with Texas last week. It also puts Verlander on the same team as Scherzer after they played together with the Detroit Tigers from 2010-14. Depending on the final details, it appears Verlander&#8217;s deal matches Scherzer&#8217;s for baseball&#8217;s record for highest average annual salary. Scherzer finalized a $130 million, three-year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person familiar with the negotiations says Justin Verlander has agreed to an $86.7 million, two-year contract with the New York Mets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}