{"id":1727561,"date":"2022-11-07T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727561"},"modified":"2022-11-07T06:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:35:15","slug":"chris-bassitt-makes-19-million-mets-option-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-bassitt-makes-19-million-mets-option-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Bassitt Makes $19 Million Mets Option Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-bassitt-makes-19-million-mets-option-decision%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>If the Mets are going to retain Chris Bassitt, they\u2019ll have to sign him on the open market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the right-hander will decline his $19 million mutual option, The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman reported Sunday, meaning Bassitt will be available for all 30 teams to pursue for what likely will be a multiyear free-agent deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets will sign up, however, for another year of Daniel Vogelbach. The club is planning to pick up the slugger\u2019s $1.5 million option for 2023, per Heyman, after the Mets acquired him before the trade deadline this past summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The option news came on the same day the Mets locked up one of their other free agents, closer Edwin Diaz, by agreeing on a five-year, $102 million contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bassitt <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/03\/major-league-baseball-ranking-top-30-free-agents\/\">will be among the top free-agent pitchers<\/a> beyond the top tier of Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Clayton Kershaw and Carlos Rodon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chris-bassitt-mets-option.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chris-bassitt-mets-option.jpg\" alt=\"Mets right-hander Chris Bassitt pitches against the Padres during Game 3 of the wild-card round on Oct. 9, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24549366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chris-bassitt-mets-option.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chris-bassitt-mets-option.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chris-bassitt-mets-option.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mets right-hander Chris Bassitt pitches against the Padres during Game 3 of the wild-card round on Oct. 9, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sturdy 33-year-old posted a 3.42 ERA across 181 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings this season after the Mets acquired him from the Athletics in March in exchange for a pair of pitching prospects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets can still extend a qualifying offer of $19.65 million to Bassitt, which would ensure them draft-pick compensation if he signs with another club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vogelbach, meanwhile, hit .255 with six home runs and a .830 OPS in 55 games with the Mets after he was acquired from the Pirates for reliever Colin Holderman. Vogelbach, who will turn 30 next month, offers a left-handed bat at designated hitter, potentially part of a platoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Mets are going to retain Chris Bassitt, they\u2019ll have to sign him on the open market.\u00a0 As expected, the right-hander will decline his $19 million mutual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}