{"id":131669,"date":"2025-09-10T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131669\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:05:11","slug":"mets-activate-jose-siri-dfa-wander-suero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131669\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Activate Jose Siri, DFA Wander Suero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets announced Tuesday that they\u2019ve reinstated outfielder Jose Siri<\/a> from the 60-day injured list. Reliever Wander Suero<\/a> was designated for assignment to open a 40-man roster spot, and outfielder Jared Young<\/a> has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse. The Mets also announced that righty Justin Garza<\/a>, whom they\u2019d previously designated for assignment, cleared waivers and has been assigned outright to Syracuse.<\/p>\n

Siri, 30, appeared in just 10 games with the Mets before suffering a fractured tibia that wound up sidelining him close to five months. New York acquired him from the Rays in an offseason deal sending reliever Eric Orze<\/a> back to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Though Siri strikes out far too often (career 35.8%) and posts poor batting averages and on-base percentages as a result, he\u2019s an elite runner and defender with considerably above-average power. Last year, Statcast pegged Siri\u2019s sprint speed (99th), outfield range (99th) and outfield arm strength (97th) in at least the 97th percentile of MLB players. He popped 43 home runs and stole 26 bags in just 812 plate appearances with the Rays from 2023-24 but did so with a grim .203\/.260\/.424 batting line overall (91 wRC+).<\/p>\n

The Mets placed Tyrone Taylor<\/a> on the injured list a couple weeks ago and are already expecting to be without Jesse Winker<\/a> for the balance of the regular season. Siri steps back into an outfield mix that includes Brandon Nimmo<\/a> and Juan Soto<\/a> in the corners, with deadline pickup Cedric Mullins<\/a> in center field. Starling Marte<\/a>, Jeff McNeil<\/a> and Luisangel Acu\u00f1a<\/a> are all options on the grass as well.<\/p>\n

Siri\u2019s right-handed bat is a natural complement for the lefty-swinging Mullins in center field \u2014 or so it would seem. However, Siri\u2019s career .194\/.251\/.378 slash against lefties is markedly worse than his career .211\/.269\/.411 batting line in right-on-right situations. Neither is a strong mark, however, and Mullins is a better hitter in left-on-left situations than Siri is in right-on-left situations \u2014 historically speaking, anyhow. For now, Siri seems like he\u2019ll operate as a fourth outfielder and late-game option off the bench, be that in a pinch-running, defensive upgrade or pinch-hitting scenario.<\/p>\n

As for the 33-year-old Suero, he was only just claimed off waivers five days ago and only reported to the team four days ago. He didn\u2019t appear in a game during his brief time with the Mets. His only big league work in 2025 has come with the Braves, for whom he yielded eight runs in 6 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Ugly Atlanta stint aside, Suero was a frequently used bullpen arm for the Nationals from 2018-20, when he pitched 142 2\/3 innings of 4.10 ERA ball. He picked up a save and 27 holds along the way. Suero\u2019s production has taken a nosedive since; he\u2019s pitched in each of the past four MLB seasons but has a 7.11 ERA in 57 innings thanks to an alarming susceptibility to home runs. After yielding just 0.63 homers per nine frames in his first three MLB seasons, Suero has surrendered an average of 2.53 big flies per nine innings since 2021.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Suero has been outstanding in Triple-A this season. He\u2019s pitched 46 2\/3 innings with the Braves\u2019 top affiliate in Gwinnett and recorded a 1.35 ERA with a dozen saves, a 31.2% strikeout rate and a 6.9% walk rate. Now that he\u2019s been designated for assignment, he\u2019ll head to outright waivers and again be made available to all 29 other clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets announced Tuesday that they\u2019ve reinstated outfielder Jose Siri from the 60-day injured list. Reliever Wander Suero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,91268,91269,91270,591,85,75101],"class_list":["post-131669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jared-young","tag-jose-siri","tag-justin-garza","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-wander-suero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}