{"id":437762,"date":"2023-06-12T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437762"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T20:02:26","slug":"luke-voit-signs-minor-league-contract-with-mets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/luke-voit-signs-minor-league-contract-with-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Voit signs minor league contract with Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have signed Luke Voit on a minor league contract, the club announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luke Voit is headed to New York <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ggxCV80z0z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ggxCV80z0z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Talkin\u2019 Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/1668318973102895107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Voit was part of the Milwaukee Brewers team, but was released nine days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old hit .221 with a .284 on-base percentage, .265 slugging percentage, zero homers and four RBIs in 22 games with Milwaukee, which forced the Brewers to release him on May 29. He had just three extra-base hits, all doubles, in 74 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Voit&#8217;s last game for the Brewers was on May 13, when he was sidelined with neck injury .<\/p>\n<p>He batted .226 with a .308 on-base percentage, 22 homers and 69 RBIs in 135 games with the San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals last season. After earning $5.45 million last year, he agreed to a minor league contract with the Brewers and opted out of it before signing a $2 million, one-year deal just before the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have signed Luke Voit on a minor league contract, the club announced on Monday. Luke Voit is headed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437763,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17653],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[19840,18542],"acf":{"announce":"The first baseman will be looking to bolster the New York squad","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437762"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437762"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}