{"id":582434,"date":"2026-02-20T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:47:29","slug":"mets-hopeful-mark-vientos-is-poised-for-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582434\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets hopeful Mark Vientos is poised for a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Mark Vientos was asked Thursday about one of the Mets\u2019 younger players and the challenges prospects typically face when making the transition into the majors when he said, \u201cWhen it comes to approach, it\u2019s knowing what you do well and making sure you showcase what you do well on a daily basis. That can be tough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He could have been talking about himself after he followed up his promising, 27-homer 2024 season with a mostly ugly season a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/mark-vientos-thinks-mets-were-forcing-wins-last-season-as-noise-mounted\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when his production fell<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He enters this season without a concrete role on the Mets\u2019 new-look roster, but still with the potential to contribute if he gets back to what he was able to do two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/sports\/the-a-rod-lessons-bo-bichette-can-heed-in-third-base-adaptation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Bichette now at third base<\/a> and Jorge Polanco taking a decent amount of at-bats at first, Vientos may be left looking for time at DH, as well as filling in at first.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Mark Vientos was asked Thursday about one of the Mets\u2019 younger players and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,228,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-582434","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-mark-vientos","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-plus","18":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116101621426010582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582434","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=582434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}