Mets, Tommy Pham Agree To Minor League Deal
The Mets and veteran outfielder Tommy Pham are in settlement on a minor league contract, reports ESPN’s Jorge Castillo. It’ll be the Vayner Sports consumer’s second stint with the group. He’d earn a prorated $2.25MM upon being chosen to the majors and has an April 25 opt-out date within the deal, by USA Today’s Bob Nightengale.
Pham, 38, spent the 2025 season with the Pirates and turned in a barely below-average .245/.330/.370 batting line (95 wRC+), although final 12 months’s manufacturing was skewed by an terrible begin to his season. The well-traveled outfielder caught fireplace in mid-June and slashed .278/.363/.468 with 10 homers, 13 doubles, a triple, an 11.7% stroll fee and a 17.2% strikeout fee over his last 273 turns on the plate.
Pham’s first stint with the Mets got here again in 2023, when he signed a one-year deal in free company and loved a productive stretch earlier than 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.
Now again with the Mets, he’ll ramp up in Triple-A in hopes of hitting his means onto the massive league roster. The Mets broke camp with high prospect Carson Benge as their beginning proper fielder, and the hope is that he’ll hit the bottom working, however considered one of New York’s high fallback plans, Mike Tauchman, is out for the foreseeable future after struggling a meniscus tear on the very finish of spring coaching.
Pham provides the Mets one other veteran choice to contemplate within the occasion that Benge, who’ll make his huge league debut with solely 116 skilled video games underneath his belt, is overmatched towards huge league pitching early within the 12 months. He additionally gives a possible righty-hitting complement to the left-handed Benge; Pham has a profession .261/.368/.434 towards lefties.
Back in November, Pham instructed The Athletic that he is nonetheless hoping to play several more seasons. His previous few years have not been particularly productive, though he revealed in that November interview that he performed via plantar fasciitis the previous couple seasons. He’s since undergone a stem cell therapy that he feels can alleviate the problem and assist him regain some worth on the basepaths. Pham hit .256/.326/.448 with 16 homers and 22 steals (in 25 makes an attempt) between the Mets and D-backs in 2023. He posted a .246/.317/.369 line and went 12-for-18 in stolen base makes an attempt within the two subsequent seasons.
