{"id":560697,"date":"2026-02-08T04:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:37:39","slug":"mets-news-francisco-lindor-wbc-keith-hernandez-sny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560697\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets News: Francisco Lindor, WBC, Keith Hernandez, SNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With pitchers and catchers set to report next week and spring training games to follow not too long after that, Abbey Mastracco took a look at which Mets players will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/04\/mets-spring-training-carson-benge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">competing for Opening Day roster spots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around the National League East<\/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\">Francisco Lindor isn\u2019t the only prominent player who will not be able to play for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic, as former Met Javier B\u00e1ez and one time almost-Met Carlos Correa have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gabyquile\/status\/2019397567155683435\" rel=\"nofollow\">also been denied the opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at Amazin\u2019 Avenue<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the Mets having traded away two of the prospects who ranked within the top five of our 2026 list, Steve Sypa presented the first of two bonus prospects: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazinavenue.com\/new-york-mets-prospects-minor-leagues\/89760\/top-25-mets-prospects-for-2026-inf-marco-vargas-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Vargas, who finished 26th<\/a> in our rankings before the Freddy Peralta trade.<\/p>\n<p>This Date in Mets History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With pitchers and catchers set to report next week and spring training games to follow not too long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,41599,4964,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-560697","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\/116033162432990574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560697","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=560697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}