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Colin Poche Elects Free Agency

By Anthony Franco | July 1, 2025 at 9:54pm CDT

Veteran reliever Colin Poche elected free agency after being outrighted by the Mets, relays Laura Albanese of Newsday. Fellow southpaw José Castillo also went unclaimed and was outrighted off New York’s 40-man roster, according to the MLB.com transaction log. Castillo has the right to elect free agency as well, though it’s unclear if he intends to do so.

Poche and Castillo are part of a revolving door of Mets’ lefty relievers. That role has been in flux since the A.J. Minter and Danny Young injuries. They’re now operating with Richard Lovelady and Brandon Waddell in that capacity. Poche, who signed a minor league contract in early May, was only on the MLB roster for a few days. He made one appearance, retiring two of six batters faced and giving up a pair of runs. Poche spent the first month of the season with the Nationals, allowing 12 runs with more walks than strikeouts in 8 2/3 innings.

This has been a frustrating season for the 31-year-old in both MLB and (to a lesser extent) at the Triple-A level. He was a decent middle reliever for the Rays as recently as last year. Poche turned in a 3.86 ERA across 37 1/3 frames with Tampa Bay in 2024. The Mets could look to bring him back on a new minor league contract given their lack of depth from the left side.

Castillo landed in Queens in a DFA trade with the Diamondbacks. He got a longer run in Carlos Mendoza’s relief corps than Poche had. The 29-year-old made 13 appearances and allowed five runs (three earned) across 11 1/3 innings. He punched out 14 but issued six walks and plunked another four hitters. This has been Castillo’s first significant stretch of MLB action since he made 37 appearances during his 2018 rookie season with the Padres, largely because of various intervening injuries.

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6 Comments

  1. Ignorant Son-of-a-b

    4 months ago

    Slow News Day

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    • Acoss1331

      4 months ago

      We’ll probably just be getting dumpster diving news for a while, especially with the All-Star break almost upon us.

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  2. imissjoebuzas

    4 months ago

    Lovelady is a disaster wherever he pitches this year.
    So acout is mezmerized. I wish he could see what tena of thousands of fams have seen

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  3. angt222

    4 months ago

    Didn’t agree with the Castillo DFA. Hope he accepts an outright assignment to remain with the organization because at this rate, he may be activated to rejoin the big league club sooner than later.

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  4. Dumpster Divin Theo

    4 months ago

    Poche on the market should Spice things up a bit

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    • Acoss1331

      4 months ago

      It’s going to spice up the dumpster diving these next weeks lol

      Reply

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