{"id":525524,"date":"2026-01-17T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:18:26","slug":"mets-tsung-che-cheng-grabbed-on-waivers-by-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525524\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Tsung-Che Cheng: Grabbed on waivers by Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768544478_68_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/NYM\/new-york-mets\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/323.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/NYM\/new-york-mets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mets<\/a> claimed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/28842581\/cheng\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheng<\/a> off waivers from the Rays on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already the third organization Cheng has been with this month as he bounces around via waivers. The 24-year-old slashed just .209\/.307\/.271 at Triple-A Indianapolis and went hitless in a brief stint with the Pirates last season, but the Mets felt Cheng was a worthy infield depth addition.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets claimed Cheng off waivers from the Rays on Friday. It&#8217;s already the third organization Cheng has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,28,61,65019],"class_list":{"0":"post-525524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-fantasy-baseball","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-tsung-che-cheng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115912293189764238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525524","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=525524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}