The Mets have acquired utility player Vidal Bruj\u00e1n from the Twins for cash considerations, and to make room for him on their 40-man roster, they\u2019ve also designated left-handed pitcher Richard Lovelady for assignment.<\/p>\n
Entering his age-28 season, Bruj\u00e1n has struggled pretty mightily at the plate in his major league career despite having been a consensus top-100 prospects from 2019 through 2022. He\u2019s made 645 plate appearances in total over the past five seasons, playing for five different teams, and has hit .199\/.267\/.276 with five home runs, 16 stolen bases, and a 54 wRC+. He\u2019s accumulated -2.0 fWAR over the course of his career thus far, and it would be somewhat surprising if he were to make it to the end of spring training without being designated for assignment.<\/p>\n
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As for Lovelady, this isn\u2019t his first, second, or third time getting DFA\u2019d by the Mets, as this marks the fourth time the team has removed him from the 40-man roster in less than a year. Despite the previous three instances and the 8.49 ERA that Lovelady had in the big leagues last year, the Mets signed him to a one-year major league contract in October<\/a>. We\u2019ll see if he remains with the Mets after this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets have acquired utility player Vidal Bruj\u00e1n from the Twins for cash considerations, and to make room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37440,5,37443,4,24906,812,148,896],"class_list":{"0":"post-533624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-40-man-roster","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-major-league-career","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-richard-lovelady","13":"tag-the-mets","14":"tag-twins","15":"tag-vidal-brujan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115941837863065826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533624","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=533624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}