{"id":613101,"date":"2026-03-08T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:16:21","slug":"brett-baty-keeps-strong-mets-spring-going-with-two-more-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613101\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Baty keeps strong Mets spring going with two more hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NY<\/a>Sun, March 8, 2026 at 5:00 AM UTC\"New<\/p>\n

Brett Baty celebrates during the Mets’ March 5 Grapefruit League game.<\/p>\n

Observations from Mets spring training Saturday:<\/p>\n

Going Baty<\/p>\n

Brett Baty, who started at first base, went 2-for-3 in the Mets\u2019 3-2 exhibition victory over the Cardinals in Jupiter, Fla.<\/p>\n

\"Brett<\/p>\n

Brett Baty celebrates during the Mets\u2019 March 5 Grapefruit League game. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Baty owns a 1.125 OPS this spring and has appeared comfortable at first base in his transition to the position.<\/p>\n

Flat footed<\/p>\n

Ronny Mauricio was picked off first base in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

Caught my eye<\/p>\n

David Wright is scheduled to begin a stint in camp Sunday as a Mets guest instructor.<\/p>\n

Darryl Strawberry and John Franco are among the other former Mets who have appeared this spring.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n

Freddy Peralta is the scheduled starter against the Yankees at Clover Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, March 8, 2026 at 5:00 AM UTC Brett Baty celebrates during the Mets’ March 5 Grapefruit League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,358,9051,753,4635,79472,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,4804,812,142],"class_list":["post-613101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-brett-baty","tag-david-wright","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-grapefruit-league","tag-john-franco","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-ronny-mauricio","tag-the-mets","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116192805574786867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613101","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=613101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}