{"id":368376,"date":"2025-12-24T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:19:17","slug":"mlb-player-found-out-he-was-traded-while-playing-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368376\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB player found out he was traded while playing golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trades in sports can happen anytime. And, for players who are involved in those trades, it can be an unexpected experience. <\/p>\n

On Monday, New York Mets infielder Jeff McNeil was traded to the Athletics, and he even revealed that he was playing golf at TPC Monterey when he got numerous phone calls and text messages from GM David Stearns. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had a text from Stearns going, \u2018Hey, please give me a call,\u2019\u201d McNeil said, via Martin Gallegos of MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cI was like, \u2018I one hundred percent just got traded.\u2019 I knew it was a possibility. I took that phone call. It was a quick phone call. I thanked him for everything and he thanked me for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNeil added it was \u201cdefinitely a crazy day\u201d as he was traded for the first time in his MLB career. <\/p>\n

McNeil, 33, is a former All-Star, and the Mets acquired 17-year-old pitcher Yordan Rodriguez<\/a> in exchange for McNeil. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest in a series of moves for the Mets<\/a>, including Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz leaving in free agency and Brandon Nimmo also being traded earlier in the offseason. <\/p>\n

McNeil was drafted by the Mets in the 12th round in the 2013 MLB Draft. <\/p>\n

While McNeil admitted it was a hectic day, he did finish his round of golf and seems excited about his new team. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust a super fun, young team. They have a great young core,\u201d McNeil said, via MLB.com. \u201cI just want to do my part to help them out. I\u2019m super excited to be a part of it. I think we\u2019re going to have a good squad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trades in sports can happen anytime. And, for players who are involved in those trades, it can be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,7635,591,1830,192940,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368376","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-jeff-mcneil","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-oakland-as","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368376","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=368376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}