ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Mets hosted a video meeting with Michael King, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
These are not uncommon, and King had video meetings with more than just the Mets, but this exemplifies a level of seriousness between the parties.<\/p>\n
King comes with a variety of elements appealing to the Mets. David Stearns wants to avoid mega-long contracts with starters in their 30s and King, who turns 31 in May, is expected to eventually sign a three- or four-year pact.<\/p>\n
King also is proven in New York, having played for the Yankees from 2019-23, a period in which Carlos Mendoza was a major league coach. King also has high-end stuff and is known for being adaptable and cerebral about pitching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Mets hosted a video meeting with Michael King, The Post has learned. These are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,29909,20,3473,21528,9,11,320,10,319,431,428,33298],"class_list":["post-65048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-stearns","tag-michael-king","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-winter-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}