{"id":362401,"date":"2025-12-22T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:36:08","slug":"new-york-mets-trade-jeff-mcneil-to-athletics-for-minor-league-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362401\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets trade Jeff McNeil to Athletics for minor-league pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Athletics are acquiring second baseman Jeff McNeil in a trade with the New York Mets, sources told ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In return, the Mets will receive a rookie-ball arm in the deal and will also be sending cash to the Athletics to help cover McNeil\u2019s $15.75 million salary, plus the $2 million buyout on a club option for next year, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 33-year-old McNeil, who has spent all eight MLB seasons with the Mets, hit .243 with 12 home runs with 54 RBIs in 2025. Overall, the two-time All-Star has a .283 career batting average with 80 home runs and 367 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He led all MLB players with a .326 batting average in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics are acquiring second baseman Jeff McNeil in a trade with the New York Mets, sources told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[126211,49,48,155776,462,133867,82],"class_list":["post-362401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-athletics-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-235","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jeff-mcneil-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-709024","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-245","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362401","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=362401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}