{"id":643394,"date":"2026-03-25T22:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643394\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:27:33","slug":"carson-benge-isnt-going-to-let-his-mets-arrival-worry-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643394\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Benge isn&#8217;t going to let his Mets arrival worry him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Carson Benge will <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/sports\/mets-reveal-the-moment-carson-benge-made-the-team-in-new-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">run out to right field at a sold-out Citi Field<\/a> and play what will be the biggest game of his life. He will debut at 23 after just one full minor league season and immediately face the expectations of a phenom.<\/p>\n<p>He must perform quickly \u2014 how long a rope can the Mets afford him if he struggles for a club that needs to have a strong season, or else many will lose jobs? \u2014 and his first opponent will be Paul Skenes, arguably the best pitcher in the world.<\/p>\n<p>If Benge sits down to reflect upon his circumstance, there are reasons to feel some combination of alarm, fear and nerves.<\/p>\n<p>He is not the type to sit and reflect. He is not the type to feel nerves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, Carson Benge will run out to right field at a sold-out Citi Field and play what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,5805,101,4,18513,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-643394","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-carson-benge","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-opening-day","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116292173470699196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643394","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=643394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}