{"id":534115,"date":"2026-01-23T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/534115\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:40:41","slug":"new-york-mets-trade-for-chicago-white-sox-outfielder-luis-robert-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/534115\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets trade for Chicago White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 21 (UPI) &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/New-York-Mets\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York Mets\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Mets<\/a> agreed to trade for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Chicago-White-Sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chicago White Sox\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> outfielder Luis Robert Jr., the teams announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets will send infielder Luisangel Acuna and minor league right-handed pitcher Truman Pauley to the White Sox in the transaction. Robert, 28, hit a career-low .223 with 14 home runs and 53 RBIs over 110 appearances last season. He hit .264 with a career-best 38 home runs and 80 RBIs over 145 appearances in 2023 en route to his lone All-Star selection.\n<\/p>\n<p>Robert hit .259 with 102 RBIs and 102 stolen bases over the first 577 games of his career.<\/p>\n<p>He signed a six-year, $50 million contract with the White Sox in 2020. The White Sox exercised his $20 million option for 2026 in November. he has another $20 million option in 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>Acuna, the brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Atlanta-Braves\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Atlanta Braves\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> star Ronald Acuna, hit .234 with 8 RBIs over 95 appearances last season for the Mets. He hit .308 with three homers and 6 RBIs over 14 appearances in 2024. The 23-year-old hit .303 with 10 RBIs over 28 appearances last season at the minor league level.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pauley, 22, recorded a 2.08 ERA over three appearances last season for the St. Lucie Mets, the Mets&#8217; Class-A affiliate. The 12th round pick in the 2025 MLB Draft went 5-10 with a 5.20 ERA over 29 collegiate appearances in 2024 and 2025 at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Robert is set to slide into a Mets lineup that also features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Francisco-Lindor\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Francisco Lindor\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Francisco Lindor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Juan-Soto\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Juan Soto\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juan Soto<\/a> and recently signed infielder Bo Bichette, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Mets pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report Feb. 11 to spring training. The full squad will report Feb. 16 to Port St. Lucie, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/UPI-Pictures-of-the-Year-2025-Winning-moments-in-Sports_1_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (C) celebrates with teammates after the Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings in Game 7 to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Sports_News\/Photos\/MLB-World-Series-Dodgers-beat-Blue-Jays-5-4-win-series-4-3\/15993\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Series<\/a> in Toronto on November 1, 2025. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk\/UPI | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/5df0923983ad39ab5885f78131587f66\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 21 (UPI) &#8212; The New York Mets agreed to trade for Chicago White Sox outfielder Luis Robert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[46,5,138,49,2561,227,134,4,61,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-534115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-francisco-lindor","14":"tag-juan-soto","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-new-york-mets","17":"tag-white-sox","18":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115943521556611265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534115","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=534115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}