{"id":645094,"date":"2026-03-26T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645094\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:08:17","slug":"mets-tommy-pham-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645094\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets, Tommy Pham Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets and veteran outfielder Tommy Pham<\/a> are in agreement on a minor league contract, reports ESPN\u2019s Jorge Castillo<\/a>. It\u2019ll be the Vayner Sports client\u2019s second stint with the organization. He\u2019d earn a prorated $2.25MM upon being selected to the majors and has an April 25 opt-out date in the deal, per USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale<\/a>. He can tack on another $850K worth of incentives, Castillo adds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pham, 38, spent the 2025 season with the Pirates and turned in a slightly below-average .245\/.330\/.370 batting line (95 wRC+), though last year\u2019s production was skewed by an awful start to his season. The well-traveled outfielder caught fire in mid-June and slashed .278\/.363\/.468 with 10 homers, 13 doubles, a triple, an 11.7% walk rate and a 17.2% strikeout rate over his final 273 turns at the plate.<\/p>\n

Pham\u2019s first stint with the Mets came back in 2023, when he signed a one-year deal in free agency and enjoyed a productive stretch before being traded to the Diamondbacks. He logged 264 plate appearances with the Amazins, hit .268\/.348\/.472, and was flipped to Arizona in a deadline deal netting teenage infield prospect Jeremy Rodriguez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now back with the Mets, he\u2019ll ramp up in Triple-A in hopes of hitting his way onto the big league roster. The Mets broke camp with top prospect Carson Benge<\/a> as their starting right fielder, and the hope is that he\u2019ll hit the ground running, but one of New York\u2019s top fallback plans, Mike Tauchman<\/a>, is out for the foreseeable future after suffering a meniscus tear that will require surgery<\/a> at the very end of spring training.<\/p>\n

Pham gives the Mets another veteran option to consider in the event that Benge, who\u2019ll make his big league debut with only 116 professional games under his belt, is overmatched against big league pitching early in the year. He also provides a potential righty-hitting complement to the left-handed Benge; Pham is a career .261\/.368\/.434 against lefties.<\/p>\n

Back in November, Pham told The Athletic that he\u2019s still hoping to play several more seasons<\/a>. His past few years haven\u2019t been especially productive, though he revealed in that November interview that he played through plantar fasciitis the past couple seasons. He\u2019s since undergone a stem cell treatment that he feels can alleviate the issue and help him regain some value on the basepaths. Pham hit .256\/.326\/.448 with 16 homers and 22 steals (in 25 attempts) between the Mets and D-backs in 2023. He posted a .246\/.317\/.369 line and gone 12-for-18 in stolen base attempts in the two subsequent seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets and veteran outfielder Tommy Pham are in agreement on a minor league contract, reports ESPN\u2019s Jorge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-645094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-tommy-pham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116297053965944603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645094","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=645094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}