{"id":617811,"date":"2026-03-11T03:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/617811\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:02:12","slug":"mets-jacob-reimer-opening-eyes-at-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/617811\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Jacob Reimer opening eyes at spring training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Jacob Reimer speaks of his first major league camp experience with the enthusiasm of a young player confident in his abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learned more in these few weeks than I have in my whole life,\u201d the Mets third base prospect said. \u201cI feel like I say that every spring, with such a good coaching staff and now getting to talk to players approach-wise, what they think defensively, I want to pick all their brains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old with big power and arm to match, Reimer is one of several young players in camp impressing team officials. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/09\/sports\/david-stearns-wont-commit-to-carson-benge-making-mets-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Benge is a candidate<\/a> to win the starting right field job, and A.J. Ewing, while unlikely to win a job on the Opening Day roster, has displayed the athleticism that makes him an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/09\/sports\/mets-carson-benge-a-j-ewing-start-together-in-outfield\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intriguing center field candidate<\/a> for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Jacob Reimer speaks of his first major league camp experience with the enthusiasm of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-617811","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-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116208324571970315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617811","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=617811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}