{"id":386396,"date":"2026-01-04T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386396\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:24:07","slug":"exclusive-paul-blackburn-tells-the-post-why-2025-mets-clubhouse-didnt-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386396\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Paul Blackburn tells The Post why 2025 Mets clubhouse didn&#8217;t mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Blackburn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/sports\/yankees-re-sign-paul-blackburn-to-one-year-2m-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return to the Yankees on a free agent deal<\/a> didn\u2019t generate much buzz and certainly didn\u2019t placate fan desire for a major addition to the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the right-hander, who joined the Yankees for the final five weeks of the regular season and in the playoffs after being <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/sports\/yankees-sign-paul-blackburn-days-after-mets-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released by the Mets in August<\/a>, has a unique perspective on how the two New York teams went in different directions in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander arrived in Queens in a trade deadline deal from the A\u2019s in 2024 and was with the organization until this past August, when he was released after an injury-marred year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then signed with the Yankees and will be back this season after agreeing to a free agent deal. He noted the difference between the two teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Blackburn\u2019s return to the Yankees on a free agent deal didn\u2019t generate much buzz and certainly didn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,130885,1189,369,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-386396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-mlb-free-agency","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386396","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=386396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}