With the spring training slate of games arriving in less than a month, the New York Mets have added depth to their pitching staff.
On Monday, the Mets inked a minor-league deal with 25-year-old Rob Whalen. The organization originally drafted the right-hander in the 12th round of the 2012 MLB Draft.
Whalen announced the recent news via his personal Twitter account.
The Mets traded Whalen to the Atlanta Braves organization in 2015, a system in which he spent time in the minors and also received his first major-league appearance.
During the 2016 campaign, Whalen appeared in five major-league games for the Braves, starting in each one of them.