The Mets made a move Tuesday in MLB free agency and signed former Twins RHP Trevor May, as SNY's Andy Martino first reported. So what exactly are the Mets getting in May -- a hard-throwing, 31-year-old reliever -- who spent 2014-20 with Minnesota?
In an interview Monday via MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM, May looked back at his Twins tenure. He spoke candidly about an up-and-down chapter, from the Twins' turnaround after a 59-103 finish in 2016 to March 2017 Tommy John surgery and individual success that followed, with an idea of what the next team would be getting.
"I'm going to be honest -- I mean, I was on a 103-loss team in 2016, on the same team, so I've seen it all," May said. "When I came up, we were a little bit lackluster and there were some just kind of dead locker rooms, just guys kind of doing what they're doing and waiting for it to be over. So sometimes, that happens. And I've been from there to winning the division two years in a row, and watching those young guys that everyone was talking about this whole time kind of coming into their own altogether and this is the way that we wanted it to. So yeah, of course, it was a really awesome experience.
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"And I think I learned a lot about how, what it takes to go and establish yourself at the major league level and saw a bunch of other guys do it at the same time. So that's invaluable to me.
"That's going to be invaluable, as I move forward, see young guys out there with me in the bullpen and we have nine innings of talking through stuff. So that's going to come up quite a bit and I think I have a lot to offer in that area."
After missing all of the 2017 season, May returned midway through 2018 and carried momentum into 2019-20. In 89 appearances over the past two years, May logged 87.2 innings pitched with a 3.18 ERA while striking out 117 and walking 33.