{"id":297732,"date":"2025-11-21T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297732\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:19:09","slug":"mets-planning-to-drop-4-year-veteran-amid-tommy-john-recovery-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297732\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Planning to Drop 4-Year Veteran Amid Tommy John Recovery: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Friday is an important roster deadline around Major League Baseball, and a New York Mets player appears to be on the wrong side of the numbers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Teams have until Friday afternoon to decide whether to tender contracts to their players who are still on their rookie deals. In most cases, the players who are non-tendered have high projected salaries through arbitration, but occasionally, players making league-minimum salaries still get the boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Mets left-hander Danny Young has played in parts of four major league seasons, but with only 1.2 years of service time, he is not yet arbitration-eligible. However, because he is currently recovering from Tommy John surgery, and because he hasn&#8217;t been a major contributor when healthy, the Mets are set to move on from the 31-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"11088115\" alt=\"\" caption=\"NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 07:  Danny Young #81 of the New York Mets in action against the Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field on September 07, 2024 in New York City. The Mets defeated the Reds 4-0. (Photo by Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images)\" credit=\"\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2920\" height=\"1992\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2170910116.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">On Thursday, Will Sammon of The Athletic reported that the Mets <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillSammon\/status\/1991645663416005093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1991645663416005093%7Ctwgr%5Eaf5ba3ac503c62f76e46950141b474c6b1af0afd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fathlonsports.com%2Fmlb%2Fnew-york-mets%2Fmets-player-enters-mlb-free-agency-on-thursday\" rel=\"nofollow\">intend to non-tender<\/a> Young, though the move has not yet been made official as of Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">&#8220;The Mets are planning to non-tender lefty reliever Danny Young, league source says,&#8221; wrote Sammon. &#8220;Young, who is not yet arb-eligible, had Tommy John surgery in May. He recently started throwing and is on pace to return at some point in the first half of 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Young made 10 appearances for the Mets last season, pitching to a 4.32 ERA in 8 1\/3 innings. He has a 4.01 career ERA, with 42 of his 63 outings coming during the 2024 season, when he also made the Mets&#8217; playoff roster. Before New York, he pitched briefly for the Seattle Mariners and Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">New York entered Friday with a full 40-man roster, so they don&#8217;t necessarily need to make other moves. It is interesting, though, that they would wait to make this move until after the deadline passed to elevate eligible prospects to the 40-man to protect against losing them in the Rule 5 Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/mlb\/cubs-7-year-veteran-elects-free-agency-after-wild-season-11083014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cubs 7-Year Veteran Elects Free Agency After Wild Season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday is an important roster deadline around Major League Baseball, and a New York Mets player appears to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,475,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-297732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297732","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=297732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}