Sometimes an offseason starts with a whisper. For the Mets, it’s starting with a list. Veterans are being evaluated. Roles are being reconsidered. And one name keeps coming up in conversations around the league: Kodai Senga.

It’s a little surprising on the surface. A pitcher with a 3.02 ERA doesn’t usually wind up on the trade block. But peel back the layers, and the Mets’ motivation becomes clearer.

Senga’s performance was solid, but the trajectory is the concern

Senga’s 2025 season wasn’t bad. In fact, it was efficient considering everything that went wrong physically. He threw 113.1 innings, kept runs off the board, and showed flashes of the version that looked like a long-term rotation anchor when the Mets signed him to a five-year, $75 million deal back in 2023.

But the underlying

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