The Mets are one of a few teams interested in 30-year-old right-hander Jake Odorizzi, according to reporting from Buster Olney of ESPN. He was named as the market’s most undervalued starting pitcher—a “sleeping giant”—by Paul Hembekides on the Baseball Tonight podcast recently, who compared Odorizzi’s 2019 breakout season to that of Zack Wheeler, who did well for himself in free agency the subsequent winter. Odorizzi’s repertoire, featuring a fastball, cutter, slider, and splitter, profiles similarly to that of Shane Bieber, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner.
The Mets have expressed interest in Jake Odorizzi
