{"id":687212,"date":"2026-05-22T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687212\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:44:13","slug":"mets-recall-canadas-jonah-tong-from-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687212\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets recall Canada’s Jonah Tong from triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets<\/a> recalled the 22-year-old pitcher from triple-A on Friday, the team announced<\/a>. To make room for Tong, the Mets designated veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel for assignment.<\/p>\n

Tong was scratched from his start at triple-A Syracuse on Wednesday. Manager Carlos Mendoza said the move was made to keep the Markham, Ont., native “in play” for a start in the team’s weekend series against the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n

The Canadian shot up New York’s minor-league affiliates in 2025, striking out 179 batters in 113.2 innings split between double-A Binghamton and triple-A Syracuse \u2013 leading all of affiliated ball. Along with his monster punchout numbers, Tong carried a 1.43 ERA in the minors and was named the MiLB pitcher of the year.<\/p>\n

His strong showing earned him a late-August recall to the Mets. And while Tong battled inconsistency against major-league hitters, he still struck out 22 in 18.2 innings and made five starts for the Mets down the stretch.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old was optioned back to triple-A to begin the 2026 season, where he has been tasked with improving some of his secondary offerings.<\/p>\n

So far, the results haven’t quite been as solid as they were in 2025. Over nine triple-A starts, Tong owns a 5.68 ERA, but he has still racked up 55 strikeouts in 38 innings.<\/p>\n

The Mets have lost a number of players to the injured list. That includes starters Clay Holmes and Kodai Senga, creating a need that Tong may be tabbed to fill.<\/p>\n

After a disappointing start to the season, the Mets have won seven of their last 10 games to climb back to 22-28 for the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets recalled the 22-year-old pitcher from triple-A on Friday, the team announced. To make room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-687212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687212","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=687212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}