Yo! Cespedes, Mets reach $75 million, 3-year deal

He also said that the contract would include one opt-out clause and be in the range of $75 million.

The New York Mets have reportedly offered a three-year contract in their bid to keep outfielder Yoenis Cespedes.

Cespedes will make $25 million per year but has an opt-out after the first year of the contract.

If the Yankees were ever going to entertain signing Cespedes, they would have had to then turn around and trade Brett Gardner, which wasn’t an unreasonable thing.

But word came out on Friday that Cespedes preferred to stay in NY. That would allow Cespedes an opportunity to test the free-agent market again next season.

The 30-year-old Cespedes’ major league career started with the Oakland A’s in 2012.

Prepare yourself for more of the sort of talk Jon Heyman’s got in that last tweet, Nationals fans, because that’s a narrative that’s not likely to die after the last swing and miss by Mike Rizzo and Co.in Washington’s front office…

In 575 career games, Cespedes has a. 271 batting average with 106 home runs and 367 RBIs.

The two-time Home Run Derby champion will return to the Big Apple, where he played a large part in carrying the Mets to last year’s World Series.

The deal works for the Mets because they can pay Cespedes during his prime while the young pitching staff remains cheap.

There was a time Thursday when it appeared as if Cespedes were headed to the division-rival Washington Nationals, who reportedly offered him a five-year deal.