NY Mets Monday Morning GM: 3 pitching projects David Stearns doesn’t need to sign

2) Erick Fedde

After pitching overseas in 2023, Erick Fedde earned himself the KBO’s equivalent of the MVP Award and thus was able to parlay that into a Major League Baseball contract. The Mets were rumored to have interest several times in the past, both as a free agent and trade candidate. Of course, he ended up signing with the unknowingly historically bad Chicago White Sox. He was 7-4 with a 3.11 ERA with them before getting traded to the St. Louis Cardinals who’d fail to make the postseason.

St. Louis ended up trading Fedde to the Atlanta Braves this year and was released less than a month later at the end of August following a poor showing. He finished his season pitching in relief for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Tallying it all up, Fedde was 4-13 with a 5.49 ERA. He had 4.3 BB/9 and an even more alarming 5.3 K/9. This is not a survivable league for a starting pitcher with totals like that.

Where he could possibly fit in with the Mets is in a Paul Blackburn role. A sixth-starter and bullpen long man is something the Mets seem to enjoy having around. However, with a full offseason and spring training to help convert Huascar Brazoban into someone capable of giving more length as well as better choices out there, Fedde is someone the club is better off ignoring in free agency. He morphed back into the pitcher he was with the Washington Nationals early in his career.