{"id":580183,"date":"2026-02-19T00:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580183\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:47:16","slug":"luis-robert-jr-is-a-mets-upgrade-and-he-can-be-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580183\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Robert Jr. is a Mets upgrade \u2014 and he can be so much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 In the past, but not that long ago, Luis Robert Jr. was the oasis. The rose in a field of weeds. The promise in despair.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 \u2014 amid a 101-loss White Sox season \u2014 Robert was a single star emerging from a cloudy night. To appreciate the gap with his teammates, know that Robert amassed 5.1 Wins Above Replacement that season. Chicago had just eight other position players with a positive WAR; the next best was Jake Burger at 1.4, and the eight combined for 5.1.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was a solo act in an ensemble. The class he swam with was outside those walls, tied for 16th in the majors in WAR with Corbin Carroll and \u2026 Juan Soto.<\/p>\n<p>You might have noticed, this season he is not going to be surrounded by nothingburgers. He is going to be in a lineup with Soto \u2026 and Francisco Lindor and Bo Bichette and Jorge Polanco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 In the past, but not that long ago, Luis Robert Jr. was the oasis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,999,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-580183","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-luis-robert-jr","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\/116094543472935395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580183","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=580183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}