Luis Severino swaps The Bronx for Queens with the former Yankees pitcher turned free agent set to join the Mets on a $13million, one-way deal after eight years with rival team

Right-handed pitcher Luis Severino has signed a one-year, $13 million contract to pack up and move across the Triborough Bridge to Citi Field and the New York Mets.

Severino – who made his major league debut with the New York Yankees in 2015 and has played his entire career in Pinstripes – will now join cross-town rivals the Bronx Bombers, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Passan also says the deal makes the righty pitcher eligible for up to $2 million in performance bonuses.

It’s been a rough few years for Severino’s career as he’s dealt with multiple arm injuries that have caused him to miss a lot of playing time.

This is also a bit of a head-scratcher when you look at recent performances. Severino posted an ERA of 6.65 last year.

Severino played his entire career in New York, but with the rival Yankees

Severino has been hampered by injuries, having not played at least 20 games since 2018

But he has posted a career win-loss record of 54-37 and an ERA of 3.79, along with 788 strikeouts.

Severino joined the Yankees as a free agent in 2011 and played in their farm system for several years.

His debut against the rival Boston Red Sox came in 2015 – a season in which he pitched 11 games in the major leagues.

Though he’s a productive fastball pitcher with a quick-turning slider, Severino’s injury history reads like a shopping list: triceps inflammation in 2016, rotator cuff inflammation in 2019, a torn UCL that required Tommy John surgery, keeping him out of all of 2020 and nearly had to miss all of 2020. the 2021 season, a lat trunk in 2022 and a high-quality oblique trunk in 2023.

Since being named an all-star in back-to-back seasons in 2018, Severino has not pitched more than 20 games or logged more than 105 innings pitched.