{"id":319677,"date":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319677\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","slug":"mets-signing-christian-cairo-in-first-move-of-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319677\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets signing Christian Cairo in first move of offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets\u2019 roster building for next season is underway, with the team addressing its infield depth on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Cairo, who spent most of last season with the Phillies\u2019 Triple-A affiliate, agreed to a one-year major league contract with the Mets, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41632355\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2283008292.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Cairo of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs throws the ball during a Minor League Baseball game at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, on June 26, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-41632355\"\/>Christian Cairo of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs throws the ball during a Minor League Baseball game at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, on June 26, 2026. NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Cairo, 25, produced a .280\/.381\/.300 slash line with four homers, 36 RBIs and 25 stolen bases in 130 games last season, the last two of which he played for Triple-A Syracuse after he was acquired by the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The Clearwater, Fla. native was selected by Cleveland in the fourth round of the 2019 MLB draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 roster building for next season is underway, with the team addressing its infield depth on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1423,129989,4606,726],"class_list":["post-319677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}