The Mets have identified their next starting pitching project.

After a year in which Sean Manaea and Luis Severino were added for relatively low prices and enjoyed bounce-backs seasons, it will be Frankie Montas who attempts to revive his career in Queens.

The Mets and the 31-year-old have agreed to a two-year deal worth $17 million per season with a player opt-out after the first year, The Post’s Jon Heyman reported Sunday.

The deal is pending a physical.

Montas, who at his best is a strikeout artist who finished sixth in AL Cy Young voting in 2021, had a combined 4.84 ERA over 30 starts with the Reds and Brewers this past season.

The 2024 season represented a step forward for a righty who pitched in just one game in 2023, when his campaign with the Yankees was nearly completely wiped out after right shoulder surgery.

Montas’ results did not improve with his health, though, pitching to a 1.367 WHIP and walking 3.9 hitters per nine innings. He did show better signs at the end of the 2024 season, striking out 70 hitters in 57 ⅓ innings after the deadline trade to the Brewers.

Montas becomes part of a still-unwhole Mets rotation that right now is led by Kodai Senga and includes David Peterson. Tylor Megill, Jose Butto and Paul Blackburn are depth options.

Jose Quintana, Manaea and Severino — the latter two who were coming off similarly disappointing 2023 seasons before joining the Mets last winter and then helped carry the club to the NLCS — are free agents.

Montas’ deal is structured like the one Manaea signed last offseason. Manaea earned $14.5 million for one season in which he emerged as an ace and received Cy Young votes, then declined his player option for the second season after successfully ballooning his value. Montas surely hopes to do the same.

Last month, president of baseball operations David Stearns acknowledged the Mets could try a similar tact — finding pitchers who are rehabilitation candidates — this offseason. It is still possible, though, that they import a more-traditional ace.

“I think the way we built our rotation last offseason was successful,” Stearns said at the GM Meetings. “I think we are seeking to build another successful rotation however it occurs, and you can do that in a variety of different ways. I don’t feel beholden to do it in any particular way.”

Montas is known for a particularly devastating splitter against which opponents hit .218 last season, while whiffing in 42.6 percent of swings.

He rode that pitch to plenty of success with the A’s for five and a half seasons in which he totaled a 3.70 ERA. He then was sent to The Bronx at the 2022 trade deadline and never was healthy for the Yankees, with whom he pitched 41 innings in a season and a half.

Montas throws five pitches and throws hard — his four-seamer averaged 95.6 mph last season — and the Mets will try to unlock the pitcher who pitched to a 3.37 ERA in 32 starts in ’21.

Stearns has said the club needs “multiple” starters without revealing an exact number. Montas, at the very least, is a start toward the club rebuilding a rotation that became a strength in ’24.