{"id":624271,"date":"2026-03-15T00:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:39:14","slug":"five-observations-about-the-mets-as-opening-day-inches-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624271\/","title":{"rendered":"Five observations about the Mets as Opening Day inches closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Mets will play another week of exhibition games before finalizing a roster that was largely set even before the first full-squad workout this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This assessment was provided Saturday by Jorge Polanco, who (for what it\u2019s worth) is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/12\/sports\/mets-jorge-polanco-goes-deep-again-as-he-heats-up-after-slow-start\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thriving in his first camp<\/a> with the Mets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, it\u2019s a great team,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we have all we need to win a World Series.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, the Mets have to reach Opening Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Mets will play another week of exhibition games before finalizing a roster that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-624271","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-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116230407361819631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624271","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=624271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}