The Mets agreed to a two-year, $34 million contract with free-agent right-hander Frankie Montas on Sunday, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The deal is subject to physical negotiation and includes an exit option after 2025. The club has not confirmed the agreement.

This is New York’s first offseason addition to a rotation that has many holes to fill. Montas joins Kodai Senga and David Peterson as the only surefire players on the Mets’ 2025 starting team.

The club’s top three starters from last season – Luis Severino (182 innings), Sean Manaea (181 2/3 innings) and Jose Quintana (170 1/3 innings) – are all free agents. The Mets could still look to bring back any combination of those three while also considering other free agents like Corbin Burnes and Max Fried.

But for now, Montas is the newest rotation member.

The last three seasons have been a wild ups and downs for the 31-year-old Montas, who played for four teams during that span and was traded twice at the deadline.

In 2022, the A’s sent him to the Yankees after a great start in Oakland (3.18 ERA in 19 starts), but Montas’ tenure in the Bronx didn’t go as planned. He posted a 6.35 ERA in eight starts while battling a right shoulder injury that would require surgery and keep him out for virtually the entire 2023 season.

Last offseason, Montas signed a one-year, $16 million contract with the Reds. That included a mutual option for 2025 that was declined by Montas, who was acquired by the Brewers at the deadline. It wasn’t quite the rebounding season Montas would have wanted, although he remained healthy except for a brief stint on the injured list because of a bruised right forearm. Montas’ 30 starts and 150 2/3 innings were the second-highest totals of his career, behind only 2021 with the A’s (32 starts, 187 innings).

Montas finished 2024 with a 4.84 ERA, and there wasn’t much difference between his results with the Reds (5.01 ERA, 88 ERA+) and Brewers (4.55 ERA, 92 ERA+). However, it’s worth noting that his strikeout rate increased from 19% to 28.7% following his trade to Milwaukee, with Montas ranking 10th among qualified major league pitchers at the trade deadline with the latter figure.

Montas worked a five-pitch mix in 2024, throwing his four-seamer, sinker, cutter, splitter and slider each at least 10% of the time. He still displayed above-average fastball velocity (70th percentile), albeit slightly lower than before his lost 2023 season. Montas’ most dangerous pitch is his splitter, which made noise on 42.6% of opponents’ swings.