{"id":567121,"date":"2026-02-11T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567121\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:40:15","slug":"francisco-lindor-will-be-back-with-mets-power-question-hanging-over-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567121\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor will be back with Mets power question hanging over him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Little doubt exists around the Mets that Francisco Lindor will be ready for the regular season despite <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/11\/sports\/francisco-lindor-opts-for-hand-surgery-in-crushing-early-mets-blow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">undergoing hamate bone surgery<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That confidence stems from the man himself.<\/p>\n<p>Lindor\u2019s nickname is \u201cMr. Smiles.\u201d He radiates more male model in his off-field dress and stature than elite athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let any of that mislead you. Lindor is tough. We often talk five tools in baseball. But none of it matters without a vital sixth one \u2014 the ability to be on the field persistently. And Lindor gets on the field. Through a bad back and fractured finger and broken pinky toe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Little doubt exists around the Mets that Francisco Lindor will be ready for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,227,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-567121","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-francisco-lindor","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116054643517217387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567121","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=567121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}