{"id":38526,"date":"2025-07-26T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38526\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:34:11","slug":"mets-bolster-bullpen-with-deal-for-orioles-lefty-gregory-soto-ahead-of-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38526\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets bolster bullpen with deal for Orioles lefty Gregory Soto ahead of trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLUSHING, N.Y. \u2014 The New York Mets have acquired help for their bullpen, trading for left-handed reliever Gregory Soto from the Baltimore Orioles for a pair of minor league pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets announced the trade Friday. They are sending right-handed pitchers Wellington Aracena and Cameron Foster for the two-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>Soto, 30, has a 3.96 ERA with 18 walks and 44 strikeouts in 45 appearances for the Orioles this season. The lefty has held left-handed batters to a .138 batting average allowing just eight walks and 22 strikeouts. He\u2019s been even stingier in 21 games since June 4 with left-handed batters 0-for-23.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Star in 2021 and 2022 with Detroit, Soto is 14-31 with a 4.24 ERA, 187 walks and 394 strikeouts in parts of seven major league seasons. He signed with Detroit in 2012 and is a native of the Dominican Republic. Baltimore acquired him last July from Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The trade deadline is Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLUSHING, N.Y. \u2014 The New York Mets have acquired help for their bullpen, trading for left-handed reliever Gregory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-38526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}