Players sometime have a difficult choice when their opt-out decision is due at year’s end. Sean Manaea isn’t one of those cases. Manaea’s call isn’t close.
The new Mets ace surely is going to void the 2025 portion of his contract that calls for a $13.5 million salary should he accept it. That would be like me deciding whether to write deadline columns for The Post for a penny next year. (Fun, sure, but I’ve gotta think I deserve a dime, at least.)
Game after game, Manaea is showing himself worth multiple times that bargain $13.5-million guarantee.
Manaea threatened for a while Wednesday to throw a perfect game on a perfectly cool day at Citi Field in a 4-3 Mets victory over the Orioles eventually won on deadline pickup/pinch-hitter Jesse Winker’s walk-off, ninth-inning opposite-field home run. (Winker’s wild celebration registered a nine on a 1-to-10 scale, meaning it was still tamer than Francisco Alvarez’s impromptu on-field party after also victimizing new Mets favorite Seranthony Dominguez a couple days earlier.)…