{"id":522965,"date":"2026-01-16T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:19:18","slug":"where-mets-need-to-pivot-after-kyle-tucker-chase-fell-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522965\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Mets need to pivot after Kyle Tucker chase fell short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox and Cubs both pivoted beautifully after early winter failures. The Mets need to do the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/15\/sports\/kyle-tucker-picks-dodgers-over-mets-blue-jays-in-free-agency-stunner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed to land No. 1 free agent Kyle Tucker<\/a> in their latest blow in a rough winter. So now they need to get to work. The offseason is still salvageable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After winning only 83 games, losing out to the miniscule-market Reds for a playoff spot, then losing two ultra-popular, productive stars in Pete Alonso and Edwin D\u00edaz, they are way behind in the offseason game. Word is they project to win 86\/87 games, but last year they underperformed the computer by eight games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets\u2019 roster doesn\u2019t look like a playoff certainty the way things stand. And it looks eons short of the Dodgers, who landed Tucker with a $240M, four-year deal, and seem to win everything these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox and Cubs both pivoted beautifully after early winter failures. The Mets need to do the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,29,4,61,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-522965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-kyle-tucker","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522965","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=522965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}