This was late one June morning in 2010, and the sweat was pouring off Carlos Beltr\u00e1n as much as you\u2019d expect it would for late spring in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Later that day, back in New York, the Mets would rally to beat the Padres 2-1 in 11 innings, and Beltr\u00e1n would watch every pitch on TV, and he would eat his heart out with every one.<\/p>\n
Beltr\u00e1n was rehabbing his troublesome knees, which is why he was playing an extended spring training game at what was then called Digital Domain Park and not a real one 1,400 miles north at Citi Field. This was around the time the Mets former owner at the time, Fred Wilpon, suggested that maybe Beltr\u00e1n wasn\u2019t as hurt as he\u2019d let on.<\/p>\n
Beltr\u00e1n smiled at that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish that was true,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish my knee didn\u2019t throb the way it does now, although it\u2019s better than it was a few months ago when it kept me up all night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was late one June morning in 2010, and the sweat was pouring off Carlos Beltr\u00e1n as much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1708,325,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-530286","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-baseball-hall-of-fame","10":"tag-carlos-beltran","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","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\/115931146141796034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530286","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=530286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}