{"id":176356,"date":"2026-03-26T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:01:18","slug":"mets-signing-tommy-pham-hours-before-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176356\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets signing Tommy Pham hours before Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the brink of the season opener, the Mets bolstered their outfield depth with an interesting addition from their past.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets and Tommy Pham are in agreement on a minor league deal, a source confirmed Thursday, just a few hours before first pitch of Mets-Pirates Opening Day at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman, Pham has an opt-out in his pact for April 25 and would make $2.25 million plus incentives if he is called up.<\/p>\n<p>Pham was a rare bright spot in an otherwise dreary 2023 season in Queens \u2014 he posted an .820 OPS in 79 games before he was part of the deadline sell-off, the Mets shipping him to Arizona \u2014 and he has bounced around the league since.<\/p>\n<p>Now 38, Pham\u2019s free agency nearly dragged into the regular season after a merely OK 2025 (.700 OPS in 120 games) with the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets\u2019 major league outfield consists of Juan Soto, Luis Robert Jr. and Carson Benge, with Tyrone Taylor a reserve and Jared Young a lefty bat capable of playing a corner. Mike Tauchman might have cracked the roster before he required knee surgery toward the end of camp.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38901540\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tommy-pham-28-pittsburgh-pirates-122192887.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy Pham #28 of the Pittsburgh Pirates takes the field against the Toronto Blue Jays at PNC Park on August 20, 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\" class=\"wp-image-38901540\"  \/>Tommy Pham is signing with the Mets. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Pham, a righty with a strong history of hitting lefties, theoretically could hit his way into a major league job, particularly if the lefty-hitting Benge struggles (or solely struggles against southpaws).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the brink of the season opener, the Mets bolstered their outfield depth with an interesting addition from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,9,11,320,10,319,71599],"class_list":["post-176356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-tommy-pham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}