Mets sign José Peraza and Abraham ‘Varón’ Almonte

CodeListDecember 17, 2022

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The New York Mets announced the signing of five players to minor league deals, including Dominican outfielder Abraham Almonte and Venezuelan infielder José Peraza. They also announced the previously reported pacts for right-handers Tommy Hunter, Sean Reid-Foley, and Jimmy Yacabonis.

All but the still-young Reid-Foley (a native of the island of Guam), who will likely miss extended time after undergoing Tommy John surgery in May, will receive invites to Major League Baseball spring training:

Peraza, 29 in April, will return to the Mets club he was with in 2021. A speed and contact guy, he has stolen 79 bases in his career and has struck out in only 13.1% of his plate appearances. , but he’s never been much of a power threat. He hit 14 home runs with the Reds in 2018, but that stands out as an anomaly compared to the rest of his career.

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By 2022, he spent the year in Triple-A on minor league deals with the Yankees and then the Red Sox. Between the two clubs, he hit .236/.290/.354, wRC+ of 70. He will give the Mets a versatile depth option, having played all three outfield spots and all three infield positions through left of first base.

Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover big events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), important players’ signatures. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as an amateur. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but baseball is in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it took almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to radio, providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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