{"id":78403,"date":"2025-12-22T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78403\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:49:11","slug":"mets-reportedly-trading-2-time-all-star-second-baseman-jeff-mcneil-to-as-as-roster-turnover-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78403\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets reportedly trading 2-time All-Star second baseman Jeff McNeil to A’s as roster turnover continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets are trading longtime second baseman Jeff McNeil to the A’s, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In return, the Mets will receive an unnamed rookie-ball pitcher<\/a> from the A’s, per the report. The Mets will also send cash to the A’s to help cover McNeil’s $15.75 million salary and $2 million buyout on a team option for next season.<\/p>\n

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McNeil, 33, has played his entire eight-season MLB career with the Mets. He received Rookie of the Year votes in his first season in 2018 and was named to the first of his two All-Star teams in 2019. He was named All-Star again in 2022 while leading the National League with a .326 batting average.<\/p>\n

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Jeff McNeil will join the A’s following eight seasons with the Mets.<\/p>\n

(Megan Briggs via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

For his career, McNeil is a .284\/.351\/.428 hitter with averages of 10 home runs, 46 RBI and 4.6 stolen bases per season.<\/p>\n

His production at the plate has dropped since 2023 as he’s hit .238 and .243 the last two seasons. He slashed .243\/.355\/.411 with 12 home runs, 54 RBI and 3 stolen bases in 2025.<\/p>\n

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McNeil was made expendable when the Mets acquired second baseman Marcus Semien<\/a> from the Texas Rangers in November in exchange for Brandon Nimmo, another longtime Mets veteran.<\/p>\n

The trade of McNeil continues significant roster turnover in New York during an offseason in which they lost All-Star slugger Pete Alonso to the Orioles and All-Star closer Edwin D\u00edaz to the Dodgers via free agency. The Mets have meanwhile signed infielder Jorge Polanco and reliever Luke Weaver to offset the departures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets are trading longtime second baseman Jeff McNeil to the A’s, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27920,16298,14766,22573,38994,38995,36895,27921,9,11,320,10,5419,24627],"class_list":{"0":"post-78403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brandon-nimmo","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-edwin-diaz","11":"tag-jeff-mcneil","12":"tag-jeff-passan","13":"tag-jorge-polanco","14":"tag-luke-weaver","15":"tag-marcus-semien","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-mets","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-pete-alonso","21":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78403","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=78403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}