{"id":81007,"date":"2025-12-25T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81007\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:10:07","slug":"mets-tried-to-get-willson-contreras-before-red-sox-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81007\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets tried to get Willson Contreras before Red Sox trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets tried for Willson Contreras <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/sports\/red-sox-trade-for-willson-contreras-from-cardinals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before he went to the Red Sox<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That was new Cardinals honcho Chaim Bloom\u2019s third trade with Boston, which makes sense since he\u2019s familiar with their system.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets, along with the Giants and Orioles, are among teams that met with star free-agent pitcher Framber Valdez.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets would do long deals for star pitchers in occasional circumstances (they offered $325M for Yoshinobu Yamamoto), but generally prefer to avoid them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets tried for Willson Contreras before he went to the Red Sox. That was new Cardinals honcho&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,21528,9,11,320,10,319,431,428,40030],"class_list":["post-81007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-willson-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81007","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=81007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}