Starting pitcher Kodai Senga has alerted the New York Mets that he wants to stay with the club, but it does not appear that feeling is mutual with president of baseball operations David Stearns.

Will Sammon of The Athletic first reported on the 32-year-old's desire to stay in Queens, though the Mets have been shopping him on the trade market throughout the first month of Major League Baseball's offseason.

Senga's stock has taken a considerable hit after a second-straight season that had been derailed by injury. Once firmly in the conversation for the NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year in 2023, when he made the jump to North America from Japan, he appeared in just five regular-season innings in 2024.

Last year, after posting a 1.47 ERA in his first 13 starts of the season, Senga su

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