That comes Friday, as the A\u2019s spend nearly a full week in New York.<\/p>\n
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Second baseman Jeff McNeil throws to first to complete a double play after orcing out Jazz Chisholm Jr. during the sixth inning of the Yankees\u2019 5-3 win over the A\u2019s on April 7, 2026 at the Stadium. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
And McNeil knows that while there will be plenty of familiar faces when he gets to Queens, there will be several that \u2014 like him \u2014 ended up elsewhere this offseason.<\/p>\n
In addition to McNeil, the Mets also traded Brandon Nimmo to Texas in exchange for Marcus Semien and let Pete Alonso go to Baltimore in free agency after bringing him back a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edwin D\u00edaz being lost to the Dodgers as a free agent was another part of the Mets offseason makeover, although the Mets did try to retain the closer, who chose to go to Los Angeles instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a bunch of new faces over there,\u2019\u2019 McNeil said. \u201cThat\u2019s the way the organization wanted to go. There\u2019s a lot of us that were there a long time that are no longer there. It was a little crazy to see, but it is what it is. I\u2019m happy to be an A now.\u201d<\/p>\n
McNeil said the transition has \u201cbeen crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust getting traded [after] spending seven years with the Mets,\u2019\u2019 McNeil said. \u201cIt took me by surprise a little bit. I think I\u2019ve been in trade talks every year of my career. You\u2019re not sure what\u2019s gonna happen, but it finally happened \u2026 I enjoyed my time over there. I have nothing but great things to say about the organization. I got traded. I love it over here [with the A\u2019s]. It\u2019s a great group of guys and we\u2019re having a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jeff McNeil hits a single during the third inning of the A\u2019s loss to the Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, though, the A\u2019s have gotten off to a rough start in their second season playing in a minor league ballpark in Sacramento while they wait for a planned move to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
McNeil and his new team lost their first four games of the season \u2014 and five of their first six \u2014 but then took a series against the Astros.<\/p>\n
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And McNeil started the season just 1-for-13 with six strikeouts, but had hits in four straight games after going 2-for-3 with a run scored, although he was still looking for his first extra-base hit after putting up 20-plus doubles and double-digit homers each of the previous three seasons.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also one noticeable difference he\u2019s experienced from having played in New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a minor league ballpark,\u201d McNeil said of the biggest adjustment to his new home. \u201cThey did a tremendous job with the locker room and have great amenities. It just doesn\u2019t quite seat as many people.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff McNeil returned for his first game in New York on Tuesday since his December trade to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1332,101,4,1690,61,62,2548,4203,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-669544","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-jeff-mcneil","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367086953378448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669544","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=669544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}