{"id":657149,"date":"2026-04-01T18:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657149\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:20","slug":"mets-richard-lovelady-at-center-of-foolish-14-5-million-freddy-peralta-related-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657149\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Richard Lovelady at center of foolish $14.5 million, Freddy Peralta-related posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Lovelady is a fan favorite of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just a so-so relief pitcher, but his name has earned him plenty of admirers.<\/p>\n<p>And on April Fools Day, that led to multiple amusing rumors.<\/p>\n<p>The first was that Lovelady has signed a $14.5 million contract extension with the Mets:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have agreed to a three-year, $14.5 million contract extension with RP Richard Lovelady, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets plan to keep the lefty around as a primary bullpen option for the long run. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OzQo7hKMQh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OzQo7hKMQh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SleeperMets (@SleeperMets) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SleeperMets\/status\/2039361280847294930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/news\/terrance-gore-son-honors-dad-perfect-first-pitch-royals-home-opener\/0d6f0212372e3fa358873a70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrance Gore&#8217;s son honors dad with perfect first pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the next was that Lovelady is getting the ball to start on Wednesday in place of Freddy Peralta:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Freddy Peralta has been scratched from his start against the Cardinals today. No word yet as to why. Richard Lovelady will serve as the opener in today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PetersonIsKing (@Peterson_IsKing) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Peterson_IsKing\/status\/2039371470086762508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither of these posts appear to have any validity to them. They are being used as some fun jokes on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that makes social media a dangerous place on Wednesday. What&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s not? It&#8217;s hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply clear from these that Mets fans really do love Lovelady.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Lovelady is a fan favorite of the New York Mets. He&#8217;s just a so-so relief pitcher, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339531,"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],"class_list":{"0":"post-657149","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116330815141152675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657149","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=657149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}