{"id":519127,"date":"2026-01-14T01:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519127\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:24:14","slug":"kyle-tucker-could-give-mets-too-much-of-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519127\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Tucker could give Mets too much of a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Tucker is one of only five players to post a 4.0 WAR or better each of the past five seasons, and the others are all superstars: Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, Mookie Betts and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that. Even Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker is undoubtedly one of the majors\u2019 very best players.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to today\u2019s pop quiz: Why the heck are the Mets trying so hard for yet another superstar right fielder who hits left-handed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Tucker is one of only five players to post a 4.0 WAR or better each of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,29,101,4,2046,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-519127","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-kyle-tucker","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-free-agency","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115890846009782012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519127","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=519127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}