SAN FRANCISCO — The Mets have made a transfer.
With lower than per week till the July 31 commerce deadline, the membership made a transfer to bolster their bullpen by buying left-hander Gregory Soto from the Baltimore Orioles on Friday in change for 2 minor league right-handers, Wellington Aracena (Low-A Brooklyn) and Cameron Foster (Double-A Binghamton).
A two-time All-Star for the Detroit Tigers, Soto went from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Orioles on the commerce deadline final summer time. A tough thrower with a 3.96 ERA in 45 video games this season (36 1/3 innings), Soto is hard to hit when he throws strikes. Nonetheless, the issue is throwing strikes. The 30-year-old Dominican has a 1.294 WHIP and an 11.3% stroll charge that Statcast charges within the eleventh percentile.
Nonetheless, he doesn’t surrender many residence runs and he strikes out loads of hitters. The Mets have a reduction group that tends to surrender loads of walks whereas additionally boasting excessive strikeout numbers. Soto principally makes use of 4 pitches, primarily working off of a 96-97 mph sinker with good rise, and slider that misses bats. He additionally throws a four-seam fastball, a sweeper and an occasional splitter.
This offers the Mets one other high-leverage arm and one other left-hander, with Brooks Raley at present being the one southpaw within the ‘pen. With two outs and runners in scoring place, Soto has held hitters to a .227 common with no residence runs this season and a .170 common in high-leverage innings.
Aracena has the potential to be a professional prospect, however he’s nonetheless a mission for the Orioles.
Foster is a 26-year-old former 14th-round pick of McNeese State. He’s gone 5-2 with a 2.97 ERA between Double-A and Triple-A this season.
The Mets begin a six-game highway journey by San Francisco and San Diego on Friday night time. Each groups are battling with the Amazins’ within the NL wild card race, however after sweeping the Los Angeles Angels earlier this week, the Mets enter the weekend sequence towards the Giants in first place within the NL East.
San Francisco is at present 1.0 recreation again from a wild card spot, proper behind NL West rival San Diego.
Initially Printed: July 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM EDT
