Craig Kimbrel continues to have<\/a>, a few months shy of his 38th birthday and a few years removed from his perhaps Cooperstown-touched prime, is a passion to pitch and faith that he can excel.<\/p>\n\u201cIf you feel like you still got it in you and you still got the drive to do it, I think I might have plenty of years to sit around at home and watch the game on TV,\u201d Kimbrel said. \u201cI still feel I have the ability to be successful and not just get by. I feel like I can still play this game at the highest level. It\u2019s what keeps me here. To a fault, sometimes I\u2019m a little hard-headed, but I don\u2019t think I would have been able to do the things in this game that I have if I didn\u2019t have that mindset. And so I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
He is present wearing his familiar No. 46, but the reliever with the fifth-most saves ever now finds himself in the unfamiliar position of having to earn a job ($2.5 million in the majors). And there is a path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The most accomplished pitcher in Mets camp (by a lot) has neither a major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4,61,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-573200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116072157469981497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573200","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=573200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}