The Mets have signed right-handed reliever Trevor Hildenberger to a minor league contract, Andy Martino of SNY tweets.
The 29-year-old Hildenberger will now reunite with Mets pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, who coached Hildenberger as an assistant in Minnesota in 2019. Hefner recruited Hildenberger to the Mets, according to Martino.
Hildenberger is a three-year major league veteran whose career got off to a fast start in 2017, as the soft-tossing sidearmer threw 42 innings of 3.21 ERA/3.01 FIP ball with 9.43 K/9, 1.29 BB/9 and a 58.8 percent groundball rate that season. It appeared the Twins had a lights-out reliever then, though Hildenberger’s career went off the rails from 2018-19. He combined for a 6.35 ERA/4.58 FIP with 8.56 K/9, 3.32 BB/9 and a 44.5 percent grounder mark across 89 1/3 innings during those two seasons.
After Hildenberger’s pair of rough campaigns, the Twins non-tendered him last winter. Hildenberger inked a minors deal with the Red Sox a few weeks later, but he didn’t make it back to the big leagues in 2020. Now, along with rejoining Hefner, Hildenberger is reuniting with fellow ex-Twins reliever Trevor May, whom the Mets signed to a two-year, $15.5MM guarantee last week.
Trevor hildenberger Trevor May, come on get Trevor Bauer so we can have the party of the trevors
I like it!
Yes! Then go out and get CF Trevor Springer!
This all better work out for Hefner’s sake. Still hasn’t done anything lately for the Mets…..
It can’t be worse than Brody’s crew
Don’t hate the signing. There’s essentially no risk to signing relievers to minor-league contracts. Either they breakout with the team, get cut, or become MiLB depth.
Mets can use all the depth they can get.
Mets signing all the former Twins they can.
Trevor May, Trevor Hildenberger, is Trevor Bauer next?
He made 73 appearances in 2018 with pretty lousy stats. That’s an awful lot of appearances for lousy stats.
We (Twins) needed all the mop up we could get. Molitor found 3 guys he liked and overused them. With varying results obviously
“Oh the humanity!”
That was funny. I’m saying “What?” and then I get it.
Hopefully mets sign Bauer. so nats get Realmuto
Nats aren’t getting anyone big. You will be lucky if they trade for Bryant. All those deferred deals are starting to catch up to them.
Winner of the winter meetings…..
Idk if anyone follows Cohen on twitter but he’s been messing with the fans a lot lately. I wonder if this is his twisted way of saying he’s signing Bauer. One Trevor two Trevors three Trevors. Tease tease tease
If they sign Trevor Williams I’m going to expect Trevor Bauer to sign lol. I already like Cohen, but if he did something like that, he’d just be my favorite person. Just a GOAT.
Yo facts! That’s what I been noticing too. Cohen definitely teasing the fans
“Mets sign every free agent Trevor – except for Bauer”
Trevor Rosenthal for the pen and Trevor Cahill for Spot Starter/Long Reliever. Both available free agents along with “that other” Trevor.
Rosenthal would be nice! Unlikely though since they already signed May
Super Steve has done it again! This Trevor’s era has almost doubled every year so far, solid move.
People saying that now the Mets HAVE to get Bauer like no they should get Paxton and Kluber or something with an addition of McCann and Yates
Can you get some big time action during the winter meetings. It’s like teams are afraid to strike first.
Might as well sign Matt Harvey, Please!!!!!! Why not?
Cohen making a difference.
Nothing going with the fish I see
OH-OH !!
Could it be a ………..
Trevor Plouffe Signing ????
OH-OH !!
Could we be seeing ………..
A Trevor Plouffe Signing ????
Trevor Bauer only signs early if he’s blown away by the offer. I’m expecting Bauer & his agent to drag this out into January.
Looks like there’s not a picture that goes with this article on the desktop site, but it was funny how on the mobile site the picture of Hildenberger showed him throwing overhand. I think he throws almost entirely sidearm, but with the Twins he used to throw an overhand fastball occasionally to mess with hitters’ looks and timing.
Don’t forget about acquiring Trevor Gott!