{"id":444361,"date":"2023-07-28T05:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T09:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444361"},"modified":"2023-07-28T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T09:07:07","slug":"mets-offload-david-robertson-to-marlins-for-two-minor-leagers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mets-offload-david-robertson-to-marlins-for-two-minor-leagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets offload David Robertson to Marlins for two minor leagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have traded their veteran closer David Robertson for two teenage youngsters as part of their financial recruitment policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TRADE \ud83d\udea8 The Marlins are acquiring David Robertson from the New York Mets, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Ken_Rosenthal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MP8YVFKeRx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MP8YVFKeRx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1684771802914988032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The trade is beneficial to the New York team, who managed to save $6.75m. The Marlins have agreed to pay the remainder of Robertson&#8217;s $10m salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have visions of this at the start of the season,\u201d Mets general manager Billy Eppler said.<\/p>\n<p>Miami sent a pair of players from its rookie-level Florida Complex League, Marco Vargas and catcher Ronald Hernandez, to the Mets in exchange for Robertson, who signed a one-year deal in December with the expectations he\u2019d help serve as a late-inning bridge to closer Edwin Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>However, Diaz suffered a torn patella, which forced the 38-year-old to take central stage.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson has been the Mets\u2019 most reliable reliever, notching 14 saves and posting a 2.05 ERA for a team that entered Thursday with a 4.22 bullpen ERA \u2014 the 10th-worst in the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have traded their veteran closer David Robertson for two teenage youngsters as part of their financial recruitment policy. TRADE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":444363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20653,17653],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[20654,18542],"acf":{"announce":"The veteran will be looking to bolster the Miami 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\/444361"}],"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=444361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444361"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444361"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}