{"id":735367,"date":"2026-06-25T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:18:18","slug":"mets-plan-to-call-up-zach-thornton-after-david-peterson-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735367\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets plan to call up Zach Thornton after David Peterson trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets\u2019 pitching plan \u2014 something that president of baseball operations David Stearns acknowledged earlier this week has become a turn-by-turn patchwork \u2014 has started to come into focus for the immediate future.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re \u201cplanning\u201d for lefty Zach Thornton, who made his MLB debut last month, to get called up and pitch Friday against the Phillies, according to The Athletic. <\/p>\n

The move comes after David Peterson was traded to the Cubs<\/a> late Wednesday night for minor-league infielder Cole Mathis, marking the first sign of a spiraling Mets team starting to change its roster just over a month before the Aug. 3 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Mets are planning to call up Zach Thornton to start Friday\u2019s game against the Phillies. Diamond Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Mets traded David Peterson to the Cubs Wednesday night. Jason Szenes for The New York Post<\/p>\n

Thronton \u2014 the Mets\u2019 No. 12 overall prospect and their fifth-best pitcher in the system, according to MLB Pipeline \u2014 allowed four runs on four hits while striking out three batters and walking two across 4 \u2153 innings against the Nationals in his lone MLB start. <\/p>\n

In 12 appearances and 11 starts for Triple-A Syracuse this season, Thornton, a fifth-round pick in 2023, has collected a 1-5 record with a 4.25 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 pitching plan \u2014 something that president of baseball operations David Stearns acknowledged earlier this week has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,759,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,709,185],"class_list":["post-735367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-david-peterson","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-prospects","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116811891230878730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735367","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=735367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}