{"id":457470,"date":"2025-12-19T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/457470\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:24:31","slug":"top-international-prospect-wandy-asigen-16-spurs-yankees-for-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/457470\/","title":{"rendered":"Top international prospect Wandy Asigen, 16, spurs Yankees for Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top Dominican shortstop will likely soon belong to the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Wandy Asigen, a 16-year-old prospect, has opted out of his contract with the Yankees, an industry source confirmed Thursday, and agreed to sign with the Mets for $3.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>The international signing period begins on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0260521;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37969661\" width=\"605\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-class-today-baseball-america-117584836.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball player Wandy Asigen hitting a baseball.\" class=\"wp-image-37969661\"  \/>Wandy Asigen ben.badler, \/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Asigen, according to MLB pipeline scouting report, has a \u201cspecial\u201d left-handed swing and is capable of regularly producing contact that registers 110 mph plus off the bat, in addition to consistently finding the barrel during game action.<\/p>\n<p>Asigen, from Puerto Plata, D.R., is the No. 2 rated international prospect behind 17-year-old Venezuelan shortstop Luis Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.14541387;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37969662\" width=\"676\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-class-today-baseball-america-117584839.jpg\" alt=\"Wandy Asigen, a baseball player, in a white uniform, black New York Yankees hat, and red sunglasses, throwing a ball while wearing a mitt on a baseball field.\" class=\"wp-image-37969662\"  \/>Wandy Asigen prepares to make a throw. ben.badler, \/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Francys Romero first reported Asigen\u2019s decision to sign with the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top Dominican shortstop will likely soon belong to the Mets. Wandy Asigen, a 16-year-old prospect, has opted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":457471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1266,405,403,1305,2228,5226,5225,5228,13726,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-457470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-ny-sports-minute","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115745513686341431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}