{"id":569328,"date":"2026-02-13T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569328\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:59:15","slug":"rafael-montero-signing-minor-league-contract-with-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569328\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Montero signing minor league contract with Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Rafael Montero is headed to The Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The once-coveted Mets prospect has agreed to a minor league deal with the Bronx Bombers, according to The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman and Greg Joyce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Montero, 35, signed with the Mets organization as an international free agent, making his big league debut in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38477846\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2238873697.jpg\" alt=\"Rafael Montero #99 of the Detroit Tigers pitches during Game One of the American League Division Series presented by Booking.com between the Detroit Tigers and the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on Saturday, October 4, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. \" class=\"wp-image-38477846\"  \/>Detroit Rafael Montero pitches during the Tigers\u2019 win over the Mariners in Game 1 of the American League Division Series presented on Oct. 4, 2025 in Seattle. MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he never really found his rhythm in Queens and has bounced around the majors since, with stops in Texas, Seattle, Houston, Atlanta and Detroit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His best season came in 2022 with an Astros team that won the World Series, as he recorded a 2.37 ERA in 71 games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He held a 2.86 over 20 games after getting to the Tigers at the deadline last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitcher Rafael Montero is headed to The Bronx.\u00a0 The once-coveted Mets prospect has agreed to a minor league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,3967,4,1690,62,2548,2547,4130,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-569328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minor-leagues","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-rafael-montero","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116061089265202440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569328","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=569328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}