The Mets have identified their next starting pitching project.

After a year in which Sean Manaea and Luis Severino were signed at relatively low prices and enjoyed successful seasons, it will be Frankie Montas looking to revive his career in Queens.

The Mets and the 31-year-old have agreed to a two-year deal worth $17 million per season, with a player opt-out after the first year, The Post’s Jon Heyman reported Sunday. The deal is still pending.

A strikeout artist at his best who finished sixth in AL Cy Young voting in 2021, Montas posted a combined 4.84 ERA over 30 starts with the Reds and Brewers last season.

The season represented progress for a right winger who played in one game in 2023 when his season with the Yankees was almost completely cut short after right shoulder surgery. However, Montas’ results did not improve with his health, he had a 1.367 WHIP pitch and 3.9 hitters per nine innings. He showed better signs at the end of the season, striking out 70 hitters in 57 ¹/₃ innings after the deadline trade to the Brewers.

Montas will join an unfinished Mets rotation that is currently led by Kodai Senga and includes David Peterson with Tylor Megill, Jose Butto and Paul Blackburn as depth options. Manaea and Severino, who had a similarly disappointing 2023 season before joining the Mets last winter and then helping lead the club to the NLCS, are free agents.

Last month, David Stearns admitted that the Mets could try a similar approach this offseason – finding pitchers who are rehab candidates.

“I think the way we built our rotation last offseason was successful,” Stearns said at the GM meetings. “I think we’re trying to build another successful rotation, no matter how it comes about, and you can do that in a few different ways. I don’t feel obligated to do it a certain way.”

Montas is known for a particularly devastating splitter, against which opponents hit .218 last season while hitting 42.6 percent of swings back and forth.

He rode that spot for five and a half seasons with great success with the A’s, posting a 3.70 ERA. He was then sent to the Bronx at the 2022 trade deadline and was never healthy again for the Yankees, with whom he pitched 41 innings in a season and a half.