Discovering out you’ve simply been traded is one approach to throw off your golf sport.
However that’s the way in which ex-Met Jeff McNeil came upon that he was headed to the Athletics on Monday morning.
McNeil, 33, was in the course of a golf spherical at TPC Monterey in California when he observed throughout the 14th gap that his cellphone had blown up after not checking for a bit, with messages from his agent and Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns.
“I had a textual content from Stearns going, ‘Hey, please give me name,’” McNeil remembered, per MLB.com. “I used to be like, ‘I a hundred percent simply received traded.’ I knew it was a risk. I took that cellphone name. It was a fast cellphone name. I thanked him for all the things and he thanked me for all the things. … Undoubtedly a loopy day.”
Whereas some might have ended their golf sport there after listening to the information, the two-time All-Star completed out the spherical earlier than returning residence to course of the commerce.
He completed his golf spherical capturing a 73.
The Mets traded McNeil to the A’s for pitching prospect Yordan Rodriguez because the group continued to disassemble its core, which included letting Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz stroll through free company and buying and selling away Brandon Nimmo.
McNeil spent his total profession with the Mets after getting drafted within the twelfth spherical in 2013, making his massive league debut 5 years later.
McNeil has a protracted affinity for golf and even instructed GolfWeek in 2024 that the game had been his Plan A.
McNeil participated within the New York State Open in 2023 when the match was held at Bethpage Black throughout the MLB All-Star break.
