LAS VEGAS — The Mets have a meeting scheduled with superstar free agent pitcher Tarik Skubal sometime next week, The Post has learned.
Skubal will be conducting multiple meetings with teams in California, with the Mets considered one of the favorites to land the two-time Cy Young winner due to their big need for pitching and even bigger ability to pay.
Mets baseball president David Stearns identified a top-of-the-rotation starter as a Mets objective heading into the winter, and their focus has seemed to be on Skubal from the start. The Mets also are expected to look at help at first base and perhaps second base, and they need to augment their bullpen, as well.
Skubal understandably seems to be their main target at the moment. Not only did Skubal, who finished 12-7 with a 2.72 ERA with the Tigers and Dodgers last year, win Cy Young awards in 2024 and ’25, but he’s one of only two pitchers to log 590-plus innings since 2024 (Cristopher Sanchez is the other). He’s also the one mega star on an unusually thin overall market for talent.
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