{"id":564088,"date":"2026-02-10T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/564088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:50:15","slug":"2026-mlb-spring-training-questions-for-yankees-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/564088\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 MLB spring training questions for Yankees, Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With another NFL season now in the books, the doom and gloom over the Giants and the Jets \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/08\/sports\/the-last-of-sam-darnolds-ghosts-have-been-exorcised\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all of their former players<\/a> earning <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/ex-giant-julian-love-finally-achieves-his-super-bowl-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl rings<\/a> the past couple of years \u2014 officially can morph back into the optimism and intrigue of a new baseball season for the Mets and the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>With pitchers and catchers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/mark-vientos-thinks-mets-were-forcing-wins-last-season-as-noise-mounted\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting to their Florida spring training locales<\/a> this week, we finally will get to quiet all the debates about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/the-telling-motto-behind-david-stearns-new-look-mets-vision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Mets\u2019 dramatic offseason overhaul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/yankees-begin-spring-training-with-plenty-of-familiarity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Yankees\u2019 return of essentially the same roster<\/a> as last year and see for ourselves as the teams attempt to close the gap on the two-time World Series champion Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my three biggest question marks for both teams as camps get into full swing:<\/p>\n<p>Yankees<\/p>\n<p>Was essentially standing pat enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With another NFL season now in the books, the doom and gloom over the Giants and the Jets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1273,1365,1100,1087,120,101,4,1690,61,62,2548,4203,2517,1274,185,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-564088","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-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-david-bednar","12":"tag-edwin-diaz","13":"tag-jorge-polanco","14":"tag-mets","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-mets","18":"tag-new-york-yankees","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkmets","21":"tag-nolan-mclean","22":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116046426085908419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564088","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=564088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}