{"id":677248,"date":"2026-04-16T23:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677248\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:34:22","slug":"this-mets-futility-isnt-on-carlos-mendoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677248\/","title":{"rendered":"This Mets futility isn&#8217;t on Carlos Mendoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Mendoza has the right temperament and will be a very good manager assuming he survives <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/16\/sports\/david-stearns-splashy-mets-offseason-came-with-a-tradeoff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this very Met downturn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He should keep his job because he has great potential and this start isn\u2019t on him. The belief here is he also has strong support from his bosses (barring a deepening disaster).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speculation that the Padres are shopping Fernando Tatis Jr. should stop now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tatis played 2B two games because he can. The Padres intend to contend, as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Mendoza has the right temperament and will be a very good manager assuming he survives this very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1443,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-677248","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-carlos-mendoza","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116417007836918513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677248","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=677248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}