{"id":540874,"date":"2026-01-27T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/540874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:42:18","slug":"mets-morning-news-the-tucker-rumor-will-continue-until-morale-improves-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/540874\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Morning News: The Tucker rumor will continue until morale improves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Murphy explained why<\/a> Bo Bichette is not new to Carlos Mendoza, despite being new to the Mets\u2019 organization.<\/p>\n

Four Mets ended up<\/a> in The Athletic\u2019s Top 100 prospects list, including two guys in the Top 20.<\/p>\n

Sam Dykstra picked out<\/a> some Mets prospects who could end up cracking the Top 100.<\/p>\n

Around the National League East<\/p>\n

The Braves claimed<\/a> reliever Jos\u00e9 Suarez off waivers and designated George Soriano for assignment to make room on the roster.<\/p>\n

There could be a change<\/a> to the Phillies\u2019 lineup this year, specifically with where Bryce Harper is hitting.<\/p>\n

Around Major League Baseball<\/p>\n

Brian Murphy looked at<\/a> 18 players who are on the rise in 2026, based on where they ranked on the list of Top 100 players<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will Leitch ranked the<\/a> 13 All-Stars on the Dodgers\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n

Bradford Doolittle explored<\/a> five teams that could be poised for a break out in 2026.<\/p>\n

David Adler outlined four<\/a> keys to a bounce-back season for free agent starter Zac Gallen.<\/p>\n

Yesterday at Amazin\u2019 Avenue<\/p>\n

Lukas Vlahos graded<\/a> the team\u2019s acquisition of Luis Robert Jr.<\/p>\n

Ryan Clifford came in at<\/a> number 8 on the Amazin\u2019 Avenue list of Mets\u2019 prospects list.<\/p>\n

This Date in Mets History<\/p>\n

The Mets dealt Steven Matz to the Blue Jays for a package that featured Sean Reid-Foley, Josh Winchowski, and Yennsy Diaz on this date in 2021<\/a>. On the same day, they signed<\/a> Aaron Loup, who pitched in one season for New York and set a franchise record for fewest earned runs allowed (six) with at least 50 innings pitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Murphy explained why Bo Bichette is not new to Carlos Mendoza, despite being new to the Mets\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,41599,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-540874","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-mets","10":"tag-mets-morning-news","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115968301081500558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540874","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=540874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}