{"id":623088,"date":"2026-03-14T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623088\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:02:27","slug":"beltrans-number-retired-pair-of-pitchers-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623088\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltran&#8217;s Number Retired, Pair of Pitchers Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Friday, and as the baseball world tunes in for the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic, there\u2019s still some news coming out of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some of the top stories, including an honor for a New York Mets Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>Mets Retiring Carlos Beltran\u2019s Number<\/p>\n<p>Hall of Fame inductee Carlos Beltran will be the ninth player to have his number retired by the New York Mets, the team confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7112007\/2026\/03\/12\/mets-carlos-beltran-number-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Will Sammon and Tim Britton of The Athletic<\/a>. The news was first reported by the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony to retire jersey No. 15 is set to occur at some point this season.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USATSI_28047006_168396005_lowres.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300406\"  \/>Mets Carlos Beltran hits an RBI single in the 5th against the Yankees, in the second game of the subway series at Yankee Stadium June 25, 2005. The Mets defeated the Yankees 10 \u2013 3.<\/p>\n<p>As The Athletic noted, \u201cBeltr\u00e1n\u2019s legacy with the Mets is complicated,\u201d marked both by his huge contract with the team, big performances and disappointments in big moments like the end of Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Beltran also was set to manage the Mets but was fired before the beginning of the 2020 season due to his role in the Houston Astros\u2019 sign stealing.<\/p>\n<p>  Brewers\u2019 Priester Out For at Least a Month<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48196642\/brewers-quinn-priester-expects-miss-least-first-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Associated Press reports<\/a> that Quinn Priester, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, will miss at least the first month of the season with \u201ca nerve issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exact nature of the injury is believed to be \u201cthoracic outlet syndrome,\u201d the AP added, and Priester has been dealing with a wrist problem for much of the spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in my head late April or May, but I certainly think I\u2019m on the optimistic side \u2014 as a player, I want to be back as quick as possible,\u201d Priester said. \u201cUltimately I\u2019ll trust whatever the scheduling is there to make sure we do it right, so then we don\u2019t run into anything else trying to rush it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jays\u2019 Berrios to see Specialist<\/p>\n<p>Jays pitcher Jose Berrios is dealing with inflammation in his right elbow, and he\u2019ll be seeing a specialist next week as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Berrios is meeting with Dr. Keith Meister on Tuesday and won\u2019t be throwing until after he sees the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s already missed the World Baseball Classic due to the inflammation. He was set to pitch for Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sab-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/dodgersnation.com\/path\/to\/app-icon.png\" alt=\"App icon\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"\/><\/p>\n<p>LA Baseball Report<\/p>\n<p>Get the app for faster news<\/p>\n<p> <a id=\"sab-cta\" class=\"sab-cta\" href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GET<\/a> \u00d7  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Friday, and as the baseball world tunes in for the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic, there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,325,387,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,2248],"class_list":["post-623088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-jose-berrios","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-quinn-priester"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116226251805714748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623088","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=623088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}