{"id":366515,"date":"2025-12-23T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:59:08","slug":"phillies-sign-right-handed-reliever-zach-pop-to-2026-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366515\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign right-handed reliever Zach Pop to 2026 contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies added one more bullpen arm on Monday, signing right-hander Zach Pop <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Phillies\/status\/2003217798173262143\" rel=\"nofollow\">to a contract for 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pop appeared in four games for the Mariners last season and one for the Mets in a stretch from mid-June to early July, and to put it bluntly, the numbers weren&#8217;t great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pop had a 14.85 ERA, a 2.55 WHIP, and a 4.1 strikeouts per nine innings rate through his five total appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He turned in a solid year in 2022 with the Marlins and then the Blue Jays, posting a 2.77 ERA and a 4-0 record across 35 relief appearances, but that kind of success has since escaped the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Pop has no minor-league options left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SIGN UP HERE to receive the PhillyVoice Sports newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Nick on Twitter:<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itssnick\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> @itssnick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Nick on Bluesky: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/itssnick.bsky.social\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@itssnick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillyvoicesports\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PhillyVoice Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies added one more bullpen arm on Monday, signing right-hander Zach Pop to a contract for 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,5136,5137,85,198914],"class_list":{"0":"post-366515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-phillies","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-zach-pop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366515","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=366515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}