{"id":539060,"date":"2026-01-26T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/539060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:39:16","slug":"mets-sign-former-archrival-reliever-to-a-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/539060\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Sign Former Archrival Reliever To A Minor-League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have signed yet another reliever to a minor-league deal, but this time the name is much more recognizable. Right-hander Craig Kimbrel has an estimable resume as a closer, and over the weekend he signed a contract that will pay him $2.5 million if he manages to crack the Mets roster coming out of spring training, with the deal reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6996486\/2026\/01\/24\/craig-kimbrel-mets-deal-minors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Will Sammon of The Athletic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets have signed yet another reliever to a minor-league deal, but this time the name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,847,101,11037,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-539060","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-craig-kimbrel","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-minor-league-deal","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115962390966295342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539060","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=539060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}