According to ESPN's Buster Olney, , up $900,000 from last year.
Neil Walker, Bartolo Colon, Alejandro De Aza and Jerry Blevins are all free agents at the end of this season and can be made a qualifying offers from the Mets.
The debate for the Mets will be aboutWalker, who should be able to get a deal at least similar to the three-year Daniel Murphy signed in Washington last winter. In that case, I assume the Mets will handle Walker the same way they handled Murphy last year, offering him the $16.