{"id":108700,"date":"2025-08-30T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:57:07","slug":"mets-designate-jose-castillo-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108700\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Designate Jose Castillo For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets announced that left-hander Jose Castillo<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Right-hander Chris Devenski<\/a> was called up from Triple-A Syracuse in the corresponding move.\u00a0 The transaction brings Devenski\u2019s fresh arm into the bullpen, as Castillo tossed 47 pitches over a two-inning relief outing in Friday\u2019s 19-9 rout of the Marlins.<\/p>\n

Castillo is out of minor league options, and thus this is the fourth time this season he has been DFA\u2019d since has to first clear waivers before being sent to Triple-A.\u00a0 The first designation came in May when Castillo was still a member of the Diamondbacks, and the Mets then brought the southpaw into the organization via trade.\u00a0 In Castillo\u2019s previous two DFAs with New York, he cleared waivers and was outrighted to Syracuse.\u00a0 It stands to reason that the same will happen here, though Castillo has the right to reject an outright assignment and elect free agency if he wants to explore the open market.<\/p>\n

Despite the roster churn, Castillo has pitched quite well during his time in Queens, posting a 2.35 ERA, 53.3% grounder rate, 25.7% strikeout rate, and 8.1% walk rate over 15 1\/3 innings with the Mets.\u00a0 This represents Castillo\u2019s best stretch in the majors since his 2018 rookie season, when he broke into the Show with a 3.29 ERA over 38 1\/3 relief innings with the Padres.<\/p>\n

However, Castillo tossed just two MLB innings between the 2019-24 seasons, due to a variety of injuries that included a Tommy John surgery.\u00a0 His bottom-line numbers for New York provide some proof that the 29-year-old can still be effective against big league hitters, even if the Mets see him as an expendable arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets announced that left-hander Jose Castillo has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Right-hander Chris Devenski was called up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,24700,61695,462,82],"class_list":["post-108700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-devenski","tag-jose-castillo","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}