{"id":260243,"date":"2025-11-03T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:42:08","slug":"a-j-minter-to-exercise-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260243\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. Minter To Exercise Player Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/minteaj01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A.J. Minter<\/a> will exercise his $11MM player option to return to the Mets in 2026, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonmorosi\/status\/1985408017643504042\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Jon Morosi of MLB Network. The left-hander originally signed a two-year, $22MM contract with New York, the second season of which was a player option. He got out to a strong start but wound up <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/05\/a-j-minter-to-undergo-season-ending-lat-surgery.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">undergoing surgery to repair a torn lat<\/a> in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran reliever A.J. Minter will exercise his $11MM player option to return to the Mets in 2026, reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[153142,64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-260243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-a-j-minter","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243","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=260243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}