{"id":434174,"date":"2025-11-15T21:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/434174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:08:14","slug":"morning-briefing-mets-announce-pair-of-minor-league-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/434174\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing: Mets Announce Pair of Minor League Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, Mets fans!<\/p>\n<p>The Mets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mets\/status\/1989395022597558291?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that they signed infielders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=rojasjo02,rojas-014jos&amp;search=Jose+Rojas&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose Rojas<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=cluff-001jac&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jackson Cluff<\/a>\u00a0to minor league deals with invites to spring training. Rojas has 83 games of major league experience with the Angels, owning a .584 OPS. Cluff spent 2025 with the Nationals\u2019 Triple-A squad, recording a .771 OPS.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/USATSI_18924548-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1670\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-250523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>Latest Mets News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/https_www.nytimes.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fathletic%2F6806303%2F2025%2F11%2F14%2Fedwin-diaz-mets-free-agency%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic<\/a>\u2018s Ken Rosenthal argues the \u201cperfect storm\u201d is brewing for the Mets to lose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=diazed04,diaz--005edw,diazed03&amp;search=Edwin+D\u00edaz&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Latest MLB News<\/p>\n<p>Tigers top prospect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=mcgoni000kev&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin McGonigle<\/a>\u00a0won\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmilyCWaldon\/status\/1989366365095166000?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MVP<\/a>\u00a0of the Arizona Fall League after finishing with a 1.210 OPS in 19 games.<\/p>\n<p>Per Bob Nightengale of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustBB_Media\/status\/1989334821768732699?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">USA TODAY<\/a>, the Pirates are expected to add about $30 million to their payroll this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/cubs-rumors-michael-king-free-agent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interested<\/a>\u00a0in free agent starter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kingmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael King<\/a>. King was 5-3 with a 3.44 ERA in 15 starts for the Padres in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Latest on MMO<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metsmerizedonline.com\/free-agent-profile-devin-williams-rp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">profiles<\/a>\u00a0reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=willide03,willia005dev&amp;search=Devin+Williams&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Devin Williams<\/a>\u00a0as a potential free agent target for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Steele-Davis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metsmerizedonline.com\/mets-simply-must-bring-back-edwin-diaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">argues<\/a>\u00a0that the Mets must bring back Edwin D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Herz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metsmerizedonline.com\/five-free-agents-the-mets-should-target-this-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lists<\/a>\u00a0five free agents the Mets should target.<\/p>\n<p>On This Date in Mets History<\/p>\n<p>Born On This Date:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazye01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yennsy D\u00edaz<\/a>\u00a0(1996),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/niemara01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Randy Niemann<\/a>\u00a0(1955),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bellgu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=metsmerizedonline.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gus Bell<\/a>\u00a0(1928).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198355 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/XWBcyxX7-e1686140012520-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets\u00a0announced\u00a0that they signed infielders\u00a0Jose Rojas\u00a0and\u00a0Jackson Cluff\u00a0to minor league deals with invites to spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,1087,75,350,101,6522,10664,61,9527],"class_list":{"0":"post-434174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-edwin-diaz","10":"tag-free-agency","11":"tag-free-agent","12":"tag-mets","13":"tag-minor-league","14":"tag-morning-briefing","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-offseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115555762812680520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434174","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=434174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}