{"id":608338,"date":"2026-03-05T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608338\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:07:13","slug":"francisco-lindor-makes-bold-opening-day-prediction-to-the-post-as-clock-ticks-on-injury-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608338\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor makes bold Opening Day prediction to The Post as clock ticks on injury rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Lindor told The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/01\/sports\/francisco-lindor-still-optimistic-about-his-mets-opening-day-status\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he likes his Opening Day chances<\/a> after hitting for the first time Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hundred percent, I think I can make it for Opening Day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re checking the boxes along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mets look headed for a six-man rotation as long as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/04\/sports\/joel-shermans-3-things-i-think-freddy-peraltas-mets-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy Peralta<\/a>, Nolan McLean, David Peterson, Clay Holmes, Sean Manaea and Kodai Senga are all ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor told The Post he likes his Opening Day chances after hitting for the first time Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,226,10607,8057,227,1534,1716,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,1268,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-608338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-christian-scott","tag-exclusive","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-jose-iglesias","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sean-manaea","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116178377014529736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608338","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=608338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}