{"id":26608,"date":"2025-01-16T06:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26608"},"modified":"2025-01-16T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:59:30","slug":"breaking-elian-pena-17-year-old-dominican-shortstop-signs-with-mets-for-5-million-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26608","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Elian Pe\u00f1a, 17-year-old Dominican shortstop, signs with Mets for $5 million bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/IMG_0218.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mets finalize $5 million deal with 17-year-old Elian Pena\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Elian Pe\u00f1a, a shortstop from the Dominican Republic who turned 17 in October, agreed to a $5 million bonus with the New York Mets on Wednesday that was the largest amount on the first day of the 2025 international signing period.<\/p>\n<p>Pe\u00f1a was rated the No. 3 prospect in the international class for this year by MLB.com behind Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki, who must agree to a deal by Jan. 23, and Dominican shortstop Josuar De Jesus Gonzalez, who agreed with the San Francisco Giants at $2,997,500.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres and Toronto Blue Jays, all hoping to sign Sasaki, did not finalize any contracts with bonuses of more than $10,000, which count against their signing bonus pools. Just half of the 30 teams finalized deals of more than $10,000 in the opening hours of the signing period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just created uncertainty for teams and certainly created uncertainty for some players,&#8221; Detroit Tigers assistant general manager Rob Metzler said. &#8220;Certainly the 2025 signing period has had more uncertainty than others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dominican outfielder Cris Rodriguez, ranked fourth, signed with Detroit for $3,197,500, and Andrew Salas, a shortstop and outfielder ranked fifth, signed with Miami for $3.7 million. Salas was born in the U.S. and moved to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to become a two-way player just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed with the Athletics at $1,510,500.<\/p>\n<p>Other agreements included Dominican infielder Johan De Los Santos and Pittsburgh ($2.25 million), Venezuelan catcher Gabriel Davalillo and the Los Angeles Angels ($2 million), Venezuelan infielder Brayan Cortesia and Washington ($1.92 million), Dominican infielder Darell Morel and Pittsburgh ($1,778,600), Venezuelan infielder Santiago Leon and Minnesota ($1,697,500), Dominican outfielder Maykel Coret and Tampa Bay ($1.6 million), Venezuelan outfielder Breyson Guedez and the Athletics ($1.5 million), Dominican outfielder Elian De La Cruz and Arizona ($1.1 million), Dominican shortstop Christopher Acosta and Milwaukee ($1.1 million), Dominican infielder Raymer Medina and Tampa Bay ($1.1 million), Venezuelan catcher Daniel Hernandez and Washington ($1.1 million) and Dominican infielder Warel Solano and Tampa Bay ($1.05 million).<\/p>\n<p>Players born from Sept. 1, 2007, through Aug. 31, 2008, are eligible to sign during this year\u00b4s period, which ends Dec. 15. Teams have signing bonus pools ranging from about $5.1 million to $7.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Australian right-hander Robinson Smith signed with Pittsburgh for $400,000 and Italian right-hander Filippo Sabatini with Philadelphia for $80,000. Ugandan infielder Armstrong Muhoozi agreed with Pittsburgh for $40,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Elian Pe\u00f1a, a shortstop from the Dominican Republic who turned 17 in October, agreed to a $5 million bonus with the New York Mets on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[178,176,177],"class_list":["post-26608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-ap","tag-dailymail","tag-wires"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Elian Pe\u00f1a, 17-year-old Dominican shortstop, signs with Mets for $5 million bonus - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26608\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Elian Pe\u00f1a, 17-year-old Dominican shortstop, signs with Mets for $5 million bonus - 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