{"id":719494,"date":"2026-06-06T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719494\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:29:08","slug":"mets-release-anderson-severino-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719494\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Release Anderson Severino &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have released left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/severan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anderson Severino<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillSammon\/status\/2063282409139753425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic\u2019s Will Sammon<\/a>.\u00a0 Severino was designated for assignment last week, and Sammon indicates that the release was granted so Severino could sign with a Japanese team.<\/p>\n<p>The southpaw is no stranger to international play, as Severino pitched in the Mexican League during the 2024-25 seasons.\u00a0 He made his return to affiliated ball this year after signing a minor league deal with the Mets over the offseason, and Severino posted a 1.31 ERA over 20 2\/3 innings with Triple-A Syracuse.\u00a0 Despite the impressive ERA, Severino\u2019s grounder-heavy (51.1% groundball rate) got a lot of help from a .229 BABIP, and his 13.8% walk rate indicated some control issues.<\/p>\n<p>Those under-the-hood numbers were likely the reason why the Mets (despite their penchant for cycling through relievers) didn\u2019t give Severino a look at the MLB level.\u00a0 His only Major League experience consists of six games and 7 1\/3 innings with the White Sox in 2022, as Severino posted a 6.14 ERA over his couple of weeks in the Show.<\/p>\n<p>Severino has worked as a reliever for almost the entirety of his pro career, so he isn\u2019t likely to explore a move to starting pitching in Nippon Professional Baseball.\u00a0 A good showing in Japan could very well get Severino back onto the radar for big league teams down the road, or perhaps lead to a longer stint in NPB for the 31-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets have released left-hander Anderson Severino, according to The Athletic\u2019s Will Sammon.\u00a0 Severino was designated for assignment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[175719,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-719494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anderson-severino","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719494","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=719494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}