{"id":568010,"date":"2026-02-12T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568010\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:03:40","slug":"mets-news-francisco-lindor-undergoing-hand-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/568010\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets News: Francisco Lindor undergoing hand surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Mets announced that Francisco Lindor is undergoing surgery on his hand today to address the hamate issue that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazinavenue.com\/new-york-mets-news\/90123\/mets-news-francisco-lindor-hamate-bone-surgery-opening-day-juan-soto-spring-training-david-stearns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">became public knowledge yesterday<\/a>. As David Stearns had said in giving that update, the expected recovery timeline for Lindor is six weeks. The Mets\u2019 2026 season begins six weeks from tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It goes without saying that Lindor is crucial to the Mets\u2019 success, as he\u2019s been the team\u2019s best player over the past several years. And even with the addition of Juan Soto last year, Lindor was the team\u2019s best player by fWAR, albeit by a relatively small margin, while he slightly trailed Soto in bWAR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Lindor\u2019s recovery goes smoothly and he is ready to play on Opening Day, the time he misses in spring training shouldn\u2019t be a major problem. If there are delays, though, it\u2019ll be interesting to see what the Mets do at shortstop in the early part of the season. The team has several players who have played short in the past, but whether or not any of them are ideal substitutes for Lindor is another matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets announced that Francisco Lindor is undergoing surgery on his hand today to address the hamate issue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4964,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-568010","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-news","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116057329041619216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568010","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=568010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}