{"id":513462,"date":"2026-01-10T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/513462\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:41:13","slug":"mets-internal-options-can-swing-2026-season-regardless-of-offseason-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/513462\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; internal options can swing 2026 season regardless of offseason approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are going to make more moves.<\/p>\n<p>Really.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if these will turn out to be strong transactions or weak. But even the most jaded fan can\u2019t really believe that Steve Cohen and David Stearns designed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/sports\/mets-avoid-arbitration-with-david-peterson-as-quiet-offseason-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an offseason only to annoy you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would caution that action does not always equal success. The Mariners were near silent last offseason \u2014 their biggest move (irony alert) was to sign free agent Jorge Polanco for one year. Seattle won its first division title since 2001 and went further (ALCS Game 7) than any time in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are going to make more moves. Really. I have no idea if these will turn out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,9411,599,101,4,2046,37650,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-513462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-david-stearns","tag-hardball","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115871802006023191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513462","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=513462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}