{"id":592237,"date":"2026-02-25T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/592237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:38:13","slug":"mets-morning-news-juan-soto-clay-holmes-chris-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/592237\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Morning News: Juan Soto, Clay holmes, Chris Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets tied<\/a> the Astros 6-6 in a spring training game yesterday. Jack Wenninger started the game and threw two scoreless innings, but it was a game to forget for the Mets\u2019 pitching staff with 13 walks given up in total. Mike Tauchman began his Mets tenure with a bang, launching a three-run home run in his first at-bat. Ronny Mauricio followed that with a solo home run of his own two batters later, and the Mets were up 4-0 before the first inning had concluded. Marcus Semien doubled and scored on a Bo Bichette sacrifice fly, and A.J. Ewing drove in the final Met run of the game on a sacrifice fly of his own in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n

After Juan Soto declared that he wants to try and beat Shohei Ohtani and win his first MVP, Thomas Harrigan broke down how he could<\/a> accomplish such a Herculean feat.<\/p>\n

In search of a breaking ball he can trust against lefties, Clay Holmes might dust off<\/a> his curve.<\/p>\n

After speaking about how Pete Alonso might come to feel after leaving the Mets, Darryl Strawberry has now<\/a> walked those comments back.<\/p>\n

MLB Pipeline gave a sneak preview<\/a> of some prospects making their teams upcoming top 30 lists, and a Mets pitching prospect is on the list.<\/p>\n

Around the National League East<\/p>\n

Chris Sale has signed<\/a> another extension with the Braves, a one-year. $27 million contract for 2027 with a $30 million club option for 2028.<\/p>\n

In other Braves news, the Braves have announced a new television network: Braves Vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Around Major League Baseball<\/p>\n

After Tarik Skubal announced he would only be pitching in one World Baseball Classic game, Paul Skenes upped the ante and announced he would pitch in two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr. made his declaration about a bold goal in his sights, and there are more stars that can attempt for big accomplishments this<\/a> year.<\/p>\n

Yesterday at Amazin\u2019 Avenue<\/p>\n

Linda Surovich took a look<\/a> at fast-rising Mets\u2019 prospect Jacob Reimer, who is in the major league camp to start spring training.<\/p>\n

Chris on Chris: (Chris) McShane delved into<\/a> the fun catching prospect (Chris) Suero, who flies around the basepaths.<\/p>\n

This Date in Mets History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets tied the Astros 6-6 in a spring training game yesterday. Jack Wenninger started the game and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,41599,4964,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-592237","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-morning-news","11":"tag-mets-news","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116131784846323294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592237","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=592237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}