{"id":438196,"date":"2026-01-28T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:01:07","slug":"mets-grae-kessinger-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438196\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets, Grae Kessinger Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets are in agreement with infielder\u00a0Grae Kessinger<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports Mike Puma of The New York Post<\/a>. A client of O\u2019Connell Sports Management, he\u2019ll be in camp as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n

Kessinger is a former second-round pick who played in 48 games with the Astros between 2023-24. The right-handed hitting utilityman batted .131 with one home run over 70 trips to the plate. Kessinger has had a light bat throughout his minor league career as well, batting .234\/.335\/.361 over 403 games. His Triple-A production is more respectable but came in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n

Houston designated Kessinger for assignment last offseason. They traded him to the Diamondbacks, who optioned him to Triple-A to begin the season. He played in 11 minor league games before being designated for assignment in the middle of April. Kessinger was on the injured list at the time, so the D-Backs released him. The team never announced what injury he had suffered, but he remained unsigned for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

In any case, it seems the 28-year-old is healthy again and will take aim at a bench spot in Queens. He\u2019s unlikely to provide much offensively but can play anywhere on the infield. Kessinger joins\u00a0Christian Arroyo<\/a> and Jackson Cluff<\/a> as non-roster infielders behind\u00a0Ronny Mauricio<\/a> and the out-of-options Vidal Bruj\u00e1n<\/a>. Tsung-Che Cheng<\/a> would also be in the mix if he gets through DFA limbo. The Mets designated him for assignment last Wednesday, meaning he\u2019s currently on waivers. They should announce tomorrow whether he has been claimed or cleared, in which case he\u2019d also get a non-roster invite to Spring Training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are in agreement with infielder\u00a0Grae Kessinger on a minor league contract, reports Mike Puma of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,181785,462,82],"class_list":["post-438196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-grae-kessinger","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438196","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=438196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}