For 2025, Mullins is owed the balance of an $8.73 million salary, and he's eligible for free agency this coming offseason. Prior to this trade, Mullins had spent his entire professional career with the Orioles, who first drafted him in the 13th round of the 2015 MLB Draft out of Campbell University.

The Orioles on Thursday traded center fielder Cedric Mullins, a member of the organization for the past decade, to the New York Mets.

The New York Mets have acquired outfielder Cedric Mullins from the Baltimore Orioles ahead of Thursday’s MLB trade deadline. Multiple reports had linked the Mets to Chicago White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Jr.