Agent: Cespedes wouldn't sign with Mets without no-trade clause

If Yoenis Cespedes was returning to New York, he needed to make sure he was staying in New York.

The outfielder was reintroduced by the Mets in a press conference Wednesday after opting to return to the club on a four-year, $110-million deal, though apparently the money wasn't the biggest factor in an agreement. Cespedes' contract also contains a full no-trade clause, which was a mandatory factor in any negotiations he had with the team, according to his agent, Brodie Van Wagenen.

"Without the ability to secure his future here, he wouldn't have signed here," Van Wagenen told ESPN's Adam Rubin. "That was absolutely a deal point that had to be part of the contract."

In Cespedes' defense, the 31-year-old hasn't been able to settle down in MLB since signing as an international free agent in 2012. In the following five seasons since, the Cuban has played for four teams while being traded on three separate occasions.

"I've experienced that now several times with Oakland, Boston, Detroit and then coming here," Cespedes said through an interpreter, according to Rubin. "I didn't like that feeling of just when I was starting to get comfortable with the team that I could be gone. So that was a very important part for me."