{"id":600706,"date":"2026-03-02T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600706\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:17:18","slug":"francisco-lindor-still-optimistic-about-his-mets-opening-day-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/600706\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor &#8216;still optimistic&#8217; about his Mets Opening Day status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Francisco Lindor is visible around Mets camp, sometimes behind the cages during batting practice, talking to teammates, other times on the field during drills.<\/p>\n<p>But he still hasn\u2019t resumed impact activities, like taking a full swing or catching balls, as he recovers from <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\">surgery to repair the hamate bone stress fracture<\/a> that has sidelined him this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that \u2014 and that spring training is progressing and the regular season is approaching \u2014 the shortstop told The Post on Sunday he\u2019s \u201cstill optimistic\u201d about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/15\/sports\/francisco-lindor-very-optimistic-about-his-mets-opening-day-status\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being ready for Opening Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lindor, limited to swinging one-handed and long-tossing without a glove, was also at shortstop Sunday, tracking grounders through the left side of the infield prior to a 4-3 win over Houston at Clover Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Francisco Lindor is visible around Mets camp, sometimes behind the cages during batting practice,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,8057,227,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428,151],"class_list":["post-600706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-exclusive","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116156710733290827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600706","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=600706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}