The Latest Breaking News from Billy Eppler

TAMPA, Fla. — The baseball spring is a time of great anticipation, especially for the rookies, and this year there are six of them in particular who are being counted on for various reasons to not only make the grade but to have a significant impact on their teams’ seasons.

While the baseball world awaits word on Carlos Correa’s situation with the Mets, the Amazin’s are taking care of other business. The team announced on Tuesday that Adam Ottavino’s one-year deal to return to Flushing is official.

New York has a new old ace for the second straight year. The organization can’t let him go to waste.

“Hi, I am Kodai Senga of the New York Mets,” said the Mets’ newest hurler, introducing himself to the Major Leagues on Monday at Citi Field. “I am very happy and excited to be in the Big Apple and to join such a great team.”

The club is expected to owe $80 million in luxury tax.

The Mets used the Winter Meetings and the days that followed to revamp the pitching staff and shore up the outfield. The club’s projected payroll will be around $350 million and with luxury tax penalties it will go above $400 million.

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

NEW YORK — The Mets blew past the luxury tax benchmark with their splashy winter meetings acquisitions and general manager Billy Eppler promised even more talent. One day after the meetings wrapped up, the club made good on that promise by re-signing outfielder Brandon Nimmo to an eight-year, $162 million…

SAN DIEGO — The Mets are leaving the Winter Meetings with four new pitchers but have yet to find a center fielder or address the lack of power in the lineup.

SAN DIEGO — The Mets promised to remain active in the starting pitching market and they made good on their promise Wednesday morning, agreeing with veteran left-hander Jose Quintana on a two-year, $26 million contract, pending a physical.

NEW YORK — Hard as it must be for the Citi Field faithful to accept the fact the Mets won 101 games, the second-most wins in their history, and still wound up as a wild card, there is this dose of hard reality: The Braves were simply a better team.