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Mets Sign Zach Pop, Designate Tyler Zuber

By Darragh McDonald | July 5, 2025 at 12:44pm CDT

TODAY: The Mets officially announced Pop’s signing.  Right-hander Austin Warren was optioned to Triple-A in one corresponding move, and 40-man roster space was created when right-hander Tyler Zuber was designated for assignment.

Zuber has a 5.27 ERA in 54 2/3 innings of parts of four MLB seasons with the Royals, Rays, and Mets.  He came to New York from Tampa in a deadline deal a year ago and has mostly pitched in the Mets’ minor league system, as his big league tenure in Queens consists of a single appearance and two relief innings in the Mets’ 7-1 loss to the Phillies on June 22.

JULY 3: The Mets and right-hander Zach Pop are in agreement on a major league contract, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. Whenever it is official, corresponding moves will be required to get him onto to the 40-man and active rosters.

Pop, 28, just spent a few weeks on the Mariners’ roster. He made four appearances, the first three of which were fairly normal. The fourth one, however, was a disaster. Put into a game against Minnesota with Seattle losing 2-0 in the sixth, Pop allowed seven earned runs in one inning, via two walks and six hits, including two home runs. That gave him an unsightly 13.50 earned run average for the year. He was then designated for assignment and elected free agency.

In his career, Pop has gotten many chances thanks to his intriguing velocity. He averages 96 miles per hour on his sinker, though that has led to more ground balls than strikeouts. In 161 career innings split between the Marlins, Blue Jays and Mariners, he has a 4.75 ERA, 18.1% strikeout rate, 7.9% walk rate and 55.2% ground ball rate.

He exhausted his final option year with the Jays last season. The Jays still had some hope of utilizing him in 2025, as they tendered him a contract. He had qualified for arbitration as a Super Two player and the two sides avoided arb by agreeing to a $900K salary for this year.

He stuck on Toronto’s 40-man through the winter but experienced some elbow soreness during camp. The Jays designated him for assignment on Opening Day to open a 40-man spot. Since he was injured at the time, he couldn’t be put on outright waivers, so he was released. That left the Jays on the hook for the majority of that salary, allowing any other club to pay him the prorated version of the minor league minimum for any time spent on the roster.

That led to a minor league deal with the Mariners. During his brief stint on their major league roster, he passed three years of service time, which gave him the right to elect free agency yesterday even though it was his first career outright.

For the Mets, their pitching staff has been hit pretty hard in the past few weeks, so they need all the help they can get. They currently have 12 pitchers on the injured list. Their starting rotation has lost Kodai Senga, Tylor Megill, Griffin Canning and Paul Blackburn in the past few weeks. They just placed Blackburn and reliever Dedniel Núñez on the IL today, after playing a doubleheader yesterday. Justin Hagenman and Rico Garcia were called up to give the club a couple of fresh arms.

David Peterson is starting tonight’s contest against the Brewers. Tim Britton of The Athletic relays that the club plans to have Hagenman, Frankie Montas and Brandon Waddell start the next three games against the Yankees. After that, the club will get a much-needed day off but it’s going to be a challenge for them to limp through the weekend.

Pop will give them a fresh arm at virtually no cost. As mentioned, he is out of options and would need to be removed from the 40-man if the club wants to remove him from the active roster. If he somehow manages to hold a spot until the end of the year, he can be retained beyond this season via arbitration.

Photo courtesy of Bruce Kluckhohn, Imagn Images

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38 Comments

  1. Dogham

    1 week ago

    Zach Pop is literally terrible. Mets must have a death wish to fade off again.

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    • Rishi

      1 week ago

      Mets gotta have their Pops.

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    • Boston’s Alignment

      1 week ago

      Yup. So was Canning.
      Yup. So was Garrett.
      Yup. So was Nunez.
      Yup. So was Stanek.
      Yup. So was Severino.

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    • Joel from NY

      1 week ago

      “literally terrible”. Did you major in creative writing?

      Reply
    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      1 week ago

      Wanted a “Pop” for 4th of July!

      Reply
    • Lemonade24

      5 days ago

      Well they dfa’d him. Good thing.

      Reply
  2. smkelly1970

    1 week ago

    to quote one of my all time favorite bands- XTC- this is POP!

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    • Sdubs

      1 week ago

      Wish they were together still. I know, very long story with XTC

      2
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    • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

      1 week ago

      Just was listening to Skylarking couple days ago…CRIMINALLY overlooked and under-appreciated band.

      5
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      • smkelly1970

        1 week ago

        ignorant- just spun “Mummer” the other day. “Love on a Farmboy’s Wages” is a minor masterpiece.

        I was in high school and was enamored by the band, and was knocked out by the 1st Dukes of Stratosphear lp so much that I wrote the band to see if they’d come to the US to play my graduation lol.
        needless to say I got no reply LOL the joys of the halcyon days of my youth!

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        • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

          1 week ago

          You just reminded me that I need NEED to check that Dukes album. I still haven’t heard it. The word was it is supposed to be more psychedelic and Beatles-esque than regular XTC ??? That sounds like ear candy to me. And yes, Farmboy’s Wages is so good , had it stuck in my head the other day. Very romantic.

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  3. Ignorant Son-of-a-b

    1 week ago

    He throws like 90 straight down the chute. Awesome batting practice/HR Derby pitcher…that’s it. He just gave up 8 runs in a third of an inning last week for the Mariners. And he did the same thing with Toronto earlier in the season. Whatever you do, only pitch him in mop-up duty when the Mets are losing by more than 10. He is likely better than a position player doing it.

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    • Acoss1331

      1 week ago

      A lot of Pop off the bat when be pitches!

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      Reply
  4. NoSaint

    1 week ago

    7 IP before he is DFA’d… Again.

    2
    Reply
    • Blue Baron

      1 week ago

      More likely 1 or 2 innings/appearances max.

      4
      Reply
    • Boston’s Alignment

      1 week ago

      7 innings in one game if the Mets are down 15-0 after the first inning.

      1
      Reply
      • Blue Baron

        1 week ago

        Boston’s Alignment: The Mets have never in their 64-year history been down 15-0 after the first inning.

        1
        Reply
    • rct

      1 week ago

      I’ll take the under on that.

      1
      Reply
      • Blue Baron

        1 week ago

        rct: There is no under with zero.

        Reply
  5. fred-3

    1 week ago

    One of the several atrocious players the Orioles got for Machado

    4
    Reply
    • niched

      1 week ago

      Dean Kremer turned out pretty good

      4
      Reply
  6. Jacksson13

    1 week ago

    Thought POP would end up in MINNE-SODA !!

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    • NoSaint

      1 week ago

      @Jacksson13

      Post reported because I didn’t think of it first.

      3
      Reply
    • Canuckleball

      1 week ago

      Also could have ended up in COLA-RADO.

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      Reply
      • Jacksson13

        1 week ago

        Well Done !

        2
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        • Joel from NY

          1 week ago

          Only if you think plays on words are funny…

          Reply
        • Jacksson13

          1 week ago

          Pay attention, I do think plays on Names and words are funny.

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          Reply
  7. geofft

    1 week ago

    Seems odd to me that they passed up on signing Michael Fulmer and lefty Matt Gage to minor league free agent contracts yesterday but gave Pop a major league deal..

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    Reply
  8. gbs42

    1 week ago

    Magnitude says, “Pop, pop!”

    Reply
  9. Boston’s Alignment

    1 week ago

    Desperate times…
    Desperate measures…

    1
    Reply
  10. Grey matter

    1 week ago

    Pop Muzik

    1
    Reply
    • smkelly1970

      1 week ago

      New York, London, Paris, Munich
      Everybody talk about pop music!

      2
      Reply
  11. RustysWorld6986

    1 week ago

    Just when you thought Nunez was getting his mojo back, he gets injured. Guy might lose a yr now with TJ surgery.

    1
    Reply
  12. Mr. McNasty

    1 week ago

    Good signing by the NYM

    Reply
  13. johnnybadd2019

    1 week ago

    Wonder if Hefner can fix him?

    Reply
    • Boston’s Alignment

      1 week ago

      This is a Desi Druschel side project.

      Reply
  14. angt222

    1 week ago

    Hopefully Pop works out better for the Mets than Zuber did.

    Reply
    • Bill M

      1 week ago

      Zuber really set the bar high

      Reply

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