{"id":342990,"date":"2025-12-13T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:16:07","slug":"report-jorge-polanco-mets-agree-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/342990\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jorge Polanco, Mets agree to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 32-year-old had a strong season with the Mariners in 2025, batting .265 with 26 home runs and 78 RBIs in 138 games.<\/p>\n<p>He was a star in the playoffs, hitting two home runs in one game against Detroit Tigers Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal before smacking the walk-off single later in Game 5 to send the Mariners to the ALCS.<\/p>\n<p>A Dominican Republic native, Polanco spent most of his career in Minnesota, playing for the Twins from 2014-2023, and making one all-star game in 2019, before being traded to Seattle in early 2024.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Polanco slashes .263\/.330\/.442.<\/p>\n<p>Polanco joins a star-studded Mets infield featuring Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/report-mets-acquire-marcus-semien-from-rangers-for-brandon-nimmo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently acquired<\/a> Marcus Semien, who was traded from the Texas Rangers in late November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 32-year-old had a strong season with the Mariners in 2025, batting .265 with 26 home runs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-342990","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342990","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=342990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}