{"id":544296,"date":"2026-01-29T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/544296\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:48:30","slug":"mets-morning-news-mets-offseason-is-almost-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/544296\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Morning News: Mets offseason is almost complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Manager Carlos Mendoza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/mets\/2026\/01\/mets-carlos-mendoza-gives-sneak-peek-into-big-lineup-decision.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropped some hints <\/a>as to how he would construct this year\u2019s lineup on a recent podcast appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Around the National League East<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nick Castellanos and manager Rob Thompson<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterchawaga\/2026\/01\/27\/phillies-skipper-explains-difficult-situation-with-nick-castellanos-drops-bottom-line\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> have a strained relationship<\/a> stemming from an incident last season and the Phillies are still expected to part ways with the outfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Around Major League Baseball<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The payroll disparity between teams is<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fmlb-payroll-disparity\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the highest it has ever been<\/a> with the Dodgers having a higher payroll than the lowest five teams combined last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at Amazin\u2019 Avenue<\/p>\n<p>This Date in Mets History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Carlos Mendoza dropped some hints as to how he would construct this year\u2019s lineup on a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,41599,4964,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-544296","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-mets-news","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115979413318897153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544296","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=544296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}