While most of the baseball world was focused on arbitration salaries and which teams were cheaping out, the New York Mets made some smaller moves while also paying their players.
Drew Romo was claimed off of waivers by the Chicago White Sox. The former first-round pick was a Mets waiver claim earlier in the offseason, but having failed to pass through unclaimed, he’ll be an abandoned project.
In addition to his elimination from the 40-man roster, Ji Hwan Bae was a survivor on the waiver wire. The controversial Mets offseason addition via waivers himself courtesy of the PIttsburgh Pirates, his 2019 domestic violence suspension is what had fans always puzzled by the mere thought of adding him to the organization.