{"id":397304,"date":"2025-10-24T07:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/397304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:21:17","slug":"new-york-mets-sign-left-hander-richard-lovelady-to-a-1-million-1-year-contract-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/397304\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets sign left-hander Richard Lovelady to a $1 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The New York Mets have signed left-hander Richard Lovelady to a one-year contract paying $1 million while in the major leagues and $350,000 while in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced the deal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Lovelady had a 6.30 ERA in eight appearances with the Mets this season. The veteran reliever also pitched in two games with Toronto, allowing four runs in 1 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Lovelady signed with New York in June. He was designated for assignment by the Mets three times over the last part of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Lovelady also had a 2.08 ERA in 16 games with Triple-A Syracuse this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets announced on Wednesday that All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor recently had a cleanup procedure on his right elbow. He is expected to be ready for spring training.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The New York Mets have signed left-hander Richard Lovelady to a one-year contract paying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,227,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,24906,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-397304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-francisco-lindor","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-richard-lovelady","17":"tag-toronto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115427939671898051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397304","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=397304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}