Right-hander Luis Severino and the New York Mets have agreed to a one-year, $13 million contract, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday.
Severino, 29, will join the Mets and a rotation in significant need of help after spending his eight-year career with the New York Yankees.
Severino also can earn up to $2 million in performance bonuses as part of the deal, which is pending a physical. If he thrives with the Mets, Severino will hit free agency again next year.
He struggled this past season, going 4-8 with a 6.65 ERA and bowing out in early September with a high-grade left oblique strain. In addition, he didn’t make his season debut until May 21 because of a strained latissimus dorsi muscle.
In the seven seasons prior, however, Severino posted a 3.39 ERA in 638 innings.
He went 19-8 in 2018 and was picked as an All-Star for the second year in a row but is 13-12 with a 4.47 ERA in 45 starts since. Severino made his major league debut in August 2015 and is 54-37 with a 3.79 ERA in 141 games.
In 2019, he strained a lat muscle and didn’t make his first start until Sept. 17. He made two more starts in the postseason and then had Tommy John surgery on Feb. 27, 2020. Severino returned in September 2021 and made three appearances, then missed two months last season because of right shoulder tightness.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.