{"id":557072,"date":"2026-02-06T02:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557072\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:40:34","slug":"mets-have-a-triple-a-plan-for-jonah-tong-to-start-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557072\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets have a Triple-A plan for Jonah Tong to start season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have high regard\/hopes for right-hander Jonah Tong, so they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/23\/sports\/freddy-peralta-improves-mets-rotation-and-ends-one-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">held him out of Freddy Peralta trade talks<\/a>. But Tong\u2019s likely to begin at Triple-A Syracuse, with an eye on refining his breaking pitches to go with a big fastball and signature Vulcan changeup. They see him as a budding Peralta, who also developed a breaking pitch later after he was initially known as \u201cFastball Freddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barring something unforeseen (an injury perhaps?), Jasson Dom\u00ednguez looks to be ticketed for Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre. The Yankees\u2019 starting OF appears set with the return of Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n<p>The analytics-driven Mets front office may not place as great an emphasis <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/28\/sports\/revealed-second-lindor-mcneil-battle-soto-relationship-underscore-mets-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on clubhouse vibe<\/a> as some others. But some insiders suggest they did seek guys with an edge after a room filled with pleasant guys and pleasantries.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette, Devin Williams and Marcus Semien are all different and interesting personalities, and they do bring edge. Semien is a hard-driving guy who hates to miss an inning, which is always a plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets have high regard\/hopes for right-hander Jonah Tong, so they held him out of Freddy Peralta trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,3289,12950,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-557072","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-jasson-dominguez","10":"tag-jonah-tong","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\/116021377572568014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557072","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=557072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}