{"id":505169,"date":"2026-01-04T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/505169\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:37:12","slug":"mets-morning-news-it-definitely-had-a-different-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/505169\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Morning News: \u201cIt definitely had a different vibe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB.com\u2019s Anthony DiComo explained his reasoning<\/a> for voting for David Wright when casting his first Hall of Fame ballot\u2014that his peak rivaled anyone in his era and the all-time greats and should be given consideration just as much as accumulating stats over a longer career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clubhouse in 2024 compared to last year was definitely different,\u201d said former Mets pitcher Paul Blackburn, who signed with the Yankees this offseason, to the New York Post<\/a> when asked about the Mets\u2019 supposed clubhouse issues last season. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say guys were in there throwing blows or anything like that, but it definitely had a different vibe. When I came over in 2024, J.D. Martinez and Jose Iglesias had a big impact on everyone in there and everyone vibed together. Those were the guys that helped the clubhouse mesh and last year, those guys weren\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around the National League East<\/p>\n

The Phillies are among the teams interested<\/a> in 27-year-old free agent Bo Bichette, according to reporting by Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n

MLB Trade Rumors reviews the Nationals\u2019 closer options<\/a> after trading away the most obvious candidate for the job in Jose A. Ferrer.<\/p>\n

Longtime Braves beat writer David O\u2019Brien, who covered the team for both The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Athletic, announced his retirement<\/a> on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

Around Major League Baseball<\/p>\n

Freddie Freeman\u2014the current active MLB hits leader and surefire Hall of Famer already\u2014may be the next player to reach the 3,000 hit mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This Date in Mets History<\/p>\n

Darryl Strawberry fell off the Hall of Fame ballot<\/a> on this date in 2005 without being enshrined in Cooperstown. He is, of course, an inner circle Mets Hall of Famer, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB.com\u2019s Anthony DiComo explained his reasoning for voting for David Wright when casting his first Hall of Fame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,41599,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-505169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mets-morning-news","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115837340440767890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}