{"id":508289,"date":"2026-01-06T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/508289\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:32:10","slug":"a-four-point-plan-for-how-mets-can-save-concerning-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/508289\/","title":{"rendered":"A four-point plan for how Mets can save concerning offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently on the social media site now called X \u2014 it\u2019s so nasty they changed the name \u2014 someone asked this unhappy question: Which team has had the worst offseason?<\/p>\n<p>The vote was basically split down the middle between our two local teams, and all I can figure is that Yankee fans carry outsized expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Fairly \u2014 and I\u2019m not sure any of this is completely fair since we\u2019re only halfway into the offseason \u2014 the Mets are having the more concerning winter.<\/p>\n<p>The 94-win Yankees are down Cody Bellinger (and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/04\/sports\/yankees-have-edward-cabrera-trade-talks-make-new-cody-bellinger-offer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they\u2019re working to bring him back<\/a>), plus a portion of their pretty terrible 2025 bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently on the social media site now called X \u2014 it\u2019s so nasty they changed the name \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,82,1365,4,2046,37650,61,185,430,428,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-508289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chris-bassitt","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-free-agency","13":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-tarik-skubal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115849589275659288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508289","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=508289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}