{"id":148239,"date":"2025-07-03T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/148239\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:10:10","slug":"mets-to-select-rico-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/148239\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets To Select Rico Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are calling up reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciri01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rico Garcia<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnthonyDiComo\/status\/1940621181226463374\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. They\u2019ll formally select his contract tomorrow and already have an opening on the 40-man roster. They\u2019ll need to make a corresponding active roster move involving a pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia gets his first big league look in two seasons. The Hawaii native signed an offseason minor league contract and has been pitching at Triple-A Syracuse. He has had pedestrian numbers, turning in a 4.45 ERA across 30 1\/3 innings. Garcia has recorded an above-average 27.4% strikeout rate but has walked almost 15% of batters faced. He has given up seven home runs, just over two per nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Garcia\u2019s struggles came in April, when he allowed an ERA above 7.00 with more walks than strikeouts. He has posted a sub-4.00 mark in consecutive months, including a 3.18 ERA with 15 strikeouts and three free passes over 11 1\/3 frames in June. Garcia has handled two innings on a few occasions and can provide a fresh arm in long relief on the heels of Wednesday\u2019s doubleheader. Southpaw\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/waddebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandon Waddell<\/a> tossed three innings during the first game of the twin bill and won\u2019t be available for a few days. He\u2019s a candidate to be optioned out to make room on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Garcia is out of options, so the Mets would need to expose him to waivers to try to send him back to Syracuse. He carries a 7.32 ERA in 35 2\/3 MLB frames over parts of four seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are calling up reliever\u00a0Rico Garcia, reports Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. They\u2019ll formally select his contract tomorrow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,28982],"class_list":{"0":"post-148239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rico-garcia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114787583646121138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}