{"id":855302,"date":"2026-08-14T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855302\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:26:09","slug":"mets-release-andy-ibanez-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855302\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Release Andy Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets released veteran infielder\/outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/i\/ibanean01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/a>, who\u2019d been playing for their Triple-A affiliate, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FrancysRomero\/status\/2088018414811898296\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Francys Romero of BeisbolFR.com. New York picked him up off waivers from the A\u2019s in late April and then passed Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez through waivers a few weeks later. He\u2019s been with the Mets\u2019 Syracuse affiliate since that time.<\/p>\n<p>Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, 33, has taken 26 plate appearances between the A\u2019s and Mets this season. They haven\u2019t gone well. He\u2019s 2-for-23 with a pair of singles, a walk, two sacrifice flies and three strikeouts. He\u2019s spent the bulk of the year with the Mets\u2019 Triple-A club, where he\u2019s slashed .269\/.295\/.429 with five homers in 157 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a tough few years for Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. During his prior run with the Tigers, he was one of manager A.J. Hinch\u2019s go-to bats versus left-handed pitching. Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez batted a career-best .264\/.312\/.433 (103 wRC+) with 11 homers in 383 plate appearances during the 2023 season \u2014 including a .261\/.297\/.523 line versus lefties. He\u2019s taken 463 big league plate appearances since and turned in a bleak .232\/.287\/.340 performance.<\/p>\n<p>The right-handed-hitting Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez hasn\u2019t hit much in recent seasons but still carries a career .272\/.316\/.437 slash against southpaws. He has experience at all four infield positions in the majors, albeit only nine innings at shortstop, and in both outfield corners. Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez is only an emergency option at shortstop at this stage of his career, but he has above-average marks for his glovework at every other infield spot and has graded about average in 171 corner outfield innings in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Depth is paramount this time of season, particularly with the trade deadline in the rearview mirror and few means of bringing in talent from outside the organization. Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez should draw interest from clubs looking for help against lefties and\/or depth at various infield positions. He\u2019s unlikely to command a major league offer but should find another Triple-A opportunity before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets released veteran infielder\/outfielder Andy Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, who\u2019d been playing for their Triple-A affiliate, reports Francys Romero of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[171701,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-855302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andy-ibanez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855302","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=855302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}