The team won’t have any arbitration hearings this year.
The Mets announced yesterday that the team has agreed to one-year contracts with all six of its arbitration-eligible players, officially avoiding the arbitration process with all of them. Those six players are: pitchers Paul Blackburn, Tylor Megill, and David Peterson, outfielders Jose Siri and Tyrone Taylor, and catcher Luis Torrens.
As sort of a general rule across baseball, it’s good for teams and players to avoid the intense and awkward process of actually going to an arbitration hearing.
As for these six particular players, Siri and Taylor are slated to split time in center field to start the 2025 season, and Torrens is the clear backup to Francisco Alvarez. Peterson’s performance in 2024 makes him a lock for a spot in the rotation come Opening Day.
Both Blackburn and Megill are a bit more on the bubble in terms of making the rotation, and Megill has an option remaining, per FanGraphs, while Blackburn does not. At the moment, Roster Resource projects Blackburn as the Mets’ sixth starter with Megill starting the year in Syraucse.