{"id":216600,"date":"2022-02-25T20:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mets-sign-rhp-felix-pena-to-minor-league-deal"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:07:57","slug":"mets-sign-rhp-felix-pena-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mets-sign-rhp-felix-pena-to-minor-league-deal","title":{"rendered":"Mets sign RHP Felix Pena to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Felix Pena. Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SportsThe Mets have agreed to a minor league contract with right-hander Felix Pena, per the team&#8217;s transactions log. The former Cubs and Angels righty will presumably be in big league camp whenever it opens and will give New York some valuable depth in either the rotation or the bullpen. Pena was eligible to sign during the lockout because he was released by the Angels in September and did not return to a 40-man roster before season&#8217;s end.Pena, who turns 32 today, was a quality swingman with the Halos from 2018-20, logging a combined 215 2\/3 innings of 4.34 ERA ball with a 23.6% strikeout rate, a 7.7% walk rate and a 43.4% ground-ball rate. Those strikeout and grounder rates are both roughly in line with the league averages, while Pena&#8217;s walk rate checked in better than average. He&#8217;s not a flame throwing power arm, but Pena sat 92.3 mph on his heater during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have agreed to a minor league contract with right-hander Felix Pena, per the team&#8217;s transactions log. The former Cubs and Angels righty will presumably be in big league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-216600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}