{"id":737185,"date":"2026-06-27T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/737185\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:51:18","slug":"one-mets-offseason-decision-was-completely-moronic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/737185\/","title":{"rendered":"One Mets offseason decision was completely moronic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy 101: If a Met breaks his arm in the forest and there\u2019s no one there, does it make a sound?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though baseball fans knew that White Sox <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/11\/sports\/mets-still-have-no-timetable-for-luis-robert-jr-s-return-following-back-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">irregular outfielder Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> is a highly fragile and unreliable performer, the Mets volunteered to pay the remaining $20 million on this year\u2019s contract to have him play center field those days and nights when he\u2019s able or in the mood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his previous three seasons, Robert had twice gone down for long stretches on the injured list \u2014 first a hamstring injury, then a hip injury \u2014 while explaining his disinclination to run the bases \u2014 including to first base \u2014 as a matter of avoiding pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those who covered the White Sox reported that Robert\u2019s departure made complete sense as it was a total salary dump, as in good riddance.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philosophy 101: If a Met breaks his arm in the forest and there\u2019s no one there, does it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,14844,999,4,61,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-737185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-diamondbacks","tag-equal-time","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116824288968745670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737185","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=737185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}