Kodai Senga Continues His Cy Young Quality Season

Kodai Senga is objectively really good. He might even be great.

What we do know is he’s a legitimate National League Cy Young contender, nearly a dozen starts into his 2025 campaign. And, as he improved to 6-3 on the season in New York’s 8-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday, he reminded all of us that he might just be the most under-the-radar ace in the sport.

After giving up a solo homer to Ezequiel Tovar — just the second home run he’s ever allowed on his splitter in the majors — Senga locked in. He retired 17 straight Rockies at one point and didn’t allow a single hit between the second and seventh innings. The only real blemish came via a leadoff walk in the seventh, which later came around to score.

He allowed just two runs on two hits in 6 1/3 innings, while striking out seven and recording 13 whiffs.

In all 11 games he’s started this season, Senga has allowed three runs or fewer. That trend continued as he and the Mets beat up on a beleaguered Rockies ball club. After surrendering a first-inning home run, the Mets responded quickly, capped off by a Brett Baty bases-clearing triple that gave Senga breathing room.

From there, he cruised.

It’s easy to dismiss strong outings against bad teams, but Senga has done this to everyone. While he came into Saturday with a 1.46 ERA and left Citi Field with a 1.60, he still leads all National League pitchers in ERA and is third in the bigs behind Kris Bubic (Kansas City) and Nathan Eovaldi (Texas).

Beyond Tovar’s solo shot, Senga is keeping the ball in the yard. And he’s looking more and more like a pitcher fully in control of his craft in his third season with the Mets. Last season doesn’t really count for the purposes of he threw just five regular season innings before making a couple of unexpected postseason cameos. The injuries now behind him, there’s no considerable sophomore (or junior) slump. He’s just a guy who who now understands exactly how to navigate a major league lineup.

There’s no runaway Cy Young favorite in the National League right now. That leaves the door wide open, and Senga’s walking right through it. He might not get the same attention as some of the bigger names, but the numbers are doing all the talking.

At some point, people are going to have to start listening.

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