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Mets Interested In Tim Hill

By Mark Polishuk | January 15, 2025 at 7:42pm CDT

The Mets have “been interested lately” in left-hander Tim Hill, Newsday’s Tim Healey reports.  Hill has now drawn some looks from two different New York boroughs, as the Yankees were also linked to Hill’s market last month.

Adam Ottavino, Jake Diekman, Phil Maton, Drew Smith, Brooks Raley, and Ryne Stanek are all free agents, and the Mets have largely looked to replace this relief depth with an influx of minor league signings and waiver claims.  Griffin Canning was signed to a big league deal and looks to be part of the bullpen mix, as well.  Amidst all of these moves, however, Danny Young is the only southpaw bullpen option on the 40-man roster, so the Mets certainly have a need for more left-handed pitching help.

Signing Tanner Scott would certainly address the bullpen balance in a major fashion, yet regardless of whether or not the Mets’ pursuit of Scott pans out, a veteran arm like Hill would also help.  Hill got a taste of the New York spotlight last season, when he posted an outstanding 2.05 ERA over 44 regular-season innings with the Yankees and then a 1.08 ERA in 8 1/3 playoffs innings.

A .238 BABIP certainly contributed to that success in the pinstripes, and for an extreme groundball pitcher like Hill, batted-ball luck has largely contributed to his ebbs and flows over his seven MLB seasons.  Hill has a 3.99 ERA across 322 1/3 career innings with the Royals, Padres, White Sox, and Yankees, with an excellent 61.8% grounder rate.  He was an average strikeout pitcher at best in the early part of his career, but Hill’s strikeout rate has dropped to just 11.8% over the last three seasons.  The decrease in strikeouts has also generally coincided with a dropoff in home runs, as keeping the ball in the park was also an issue for Hill earlier in his career.

Hill turns 35 in February, and given how two rough months with the White Sox preceded his strong showing in the Bronx, the left-hander will surely land just a one-year contract in free agency.  That might fit well with David Stearns’ usual approach to investing in relief pitching, as the Mets president of baseball operations has rarely spent much on bullpen arms, instead preferring to develop relievers from within or to find hidden gems on minor league deals.

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41 Comments

  1. cwsOverhaul

    5 months ago

    Ooh……….this is like the sequel to the battle for Soto!

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      5 months ago

      Is this where Hal rage-signs Alonso?

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      • Salzilla

        5 months ago

        Still think that should have happened!

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        • YankeesBleacherCreature

          5 months ago

          In hindsight, for 3 years and opt-outs… yeah.

          Reply
    • LordD99

      5 months ago

      A 1/51 should do it.

      Reply
  2. dasit

    5 months ago

    you can have soto but you leave gym-teacher-on-meth alone!

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  3. YourDreamGM

    5 months ago

    Big surprise. Mets Yankees. Baseball needs a salary cap.

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    • Blue Baron

      5 months ago

      No it doesn’t. And it would never happen anyway.

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      Reply
    • carlos15

      5 months ago

      Salary cap over a Tim Hill signing? Mets & Yankees yet it’s the Dodgers who sign the biggest free agents more often than not. SF and Toronto would too if anyone wanted to go there. San Diego went ballistic spending money for a few years too. So did the Rangers- Seager, Semien deGrom- in 2 years. A lot of teams spend really big.

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    • ItsMillerTime

      5 months ago

      If baseball needs any cap, it probably should be on how much money you’re allowed to defer.

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    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      5 months ago

      First, if players agree to a salary cap it is going to be a higher amount than where any team is presently at.

      Second, players will only agree to a cap both with a floor and open owner books. The owners will never agree to the latter which rules out a cap being negotiated where players get a fixed percentage tags of profits.

      If there was a cap of $400 million and a floor of $105 million, nothing would be different among the top spending teams.

      I could see a rule that if you spend less than $100 million, you lose a draft pick,

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    • Jizzrael

      5 months ago

      A lot of people not getting sarcasm.

      2
      Reply
  4. Blue Baron

    5 months ago

    Hey Mark, it’s a BEVY. Nobody really edits the copy, do they?

    Reply
    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      5 months ago

      RE: “bevvy”

      The extra “v” is for victory?

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  5. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    5 months ago

    If Tim Hill says no, they can always go after Rich Hill.

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    • dasit

      5 months ago

      or hank hill. i hear the propane industry has bottomed out

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      • This one belongs to the Reds

        5 months ago

        What the Sam Hill?

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      • MWeller77

        5 months ago

        Or Hank Trill. “I keep that thing on me, / God damn it, Bobby! / They see me sellin’ propane, / now they try to copy.”

        Reply
    • RochesterMetsFan

      5 months ago

      Id sign Dan Hill for his smooth soft rock hits and sweet bucket tones of such bangers as Sometimes When We Touch

      Reply
  6. vtadave

    5 months ago

    2.08 ERA in his last 39 innings last year, but not good enough to face Freddie I guess.

    Thank you Boone!

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    • mlbnyyfan

      5 months ago

      Should have cost Boone his job instead Nester got a ticket out of New York

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    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      5 months ago

      VTA

      The only good that came from that nonsense is Devin airbender Williams

      2
      Reply
  7. jvent

    5 months ago

    Should sign Tanner Scott, Trevor Bauer plus resign Alonso, Winker (DH) and Iglesias

    Reply
    • Blue Baron

      5 months ago

      Trevor Bauer will never play in MLB again. And it’s no big loss.

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    • rct

      5 months ago

      Love all of those except Bauer.

      3
      Reply
    • ny papi

      5 months ago

      When you said Trevor Bauer you really meant to say Ryne Stanek

      3
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      • Blue Baron

        5 months ago

        No, I seriously meant to say Trevor Bauer.

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        • Flanster

          5 months ago

          He was talking to jvent

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        • ny papi

          5 months ago

          My reply was to jvent, I can’t stand Bauer and I’m glad no team is desperate enough to sign him

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    • Salzilla

      5 months ago

      Gosh darn it, went almost the full offseason without seeing a Bauer bro…

      3
      Reply
      • Flanster

        5 months ago

        Sorry Sal ,they’re still around

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        • Salzilla

          5 months ago

          I think I blocked a good handful last offseason lol.

          1
          Reply
  8. Sayhay88

    5 months ago

    If it’s not Rich Hill I don’t care

    Reply
  9. Jbigz12

    5 months ago

    Lot of good relievers left in the FA market. Should be some bargains available for those who have waited.

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    • Bill M

      5 months ago

      Yup. Minter is a good lefty option

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  10. FrankRoo

    5 months ago

    Even if the reliever market is looking dry I ain’t paying much for a 4.2 k/9 pitcher who is likely to regress on that BABIP.

    Reply
  11. giantboy99

    5 months ago

    Surprised Yanks didn’t bring Hill back.

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    • Salzilla

      5 months ago

      Could still happen.

      Reply
  12. MLBTR needs to hire editors

    5 months ago

    There should not be a comma before “as well.”

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