{"id":569093,"date":"2026-02-13T00:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569093\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:19:14","slug":"francisco-alvarez-knows-francisco-lindors-hand-surgery-pain-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569093\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Alvarez knows Francisco Lindor&#8217;s hand surgery pain, challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Francisco Alvarez hadn\u2019t received an opportunity to compare battle wounds with Francisco Lindor as of Thursday afternoon, but the Mets catcher welcomes the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just waiting to see [Lindor] and give him a big hug and talk a little bit about it,\u201d Alvarez told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u201d refers to the hamate bone surgery that Lindor <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\">underwent Wednesday on his left hand<\/a>, after a stress reaction was diagnosed. <\/p>\n<p>Lindor is facing a six-week recovery that has left in question whether he will be ready for Opening Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Francisco Alvarez hadn\u2019t received an opportunity to compare battle wounds with Francisco Lindor as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1347,227,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-569093","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-alvarez","10":"tag-francisco-lindor","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-plus","19":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116060459571184549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569093","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=569093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}