{"id":800158,"date":"2026-09-09T00:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/800158\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:42:33","slug":"mets-reed-garrett-tells-the-post-how-elbow-feels-13-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/800158\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Reed Garrett tells The Post how elbow feels &#8217;13 again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 Reed Garrett woke up last Saturday with jitters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets were preparing to face the Giants in Queens that afternoon, and Garrett was nearly 1,200 miles removed from the scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/07\/sports\/a-j-ewing-turns-a-corner-from-dreadful-august-with-three-hit-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about to face hitters in an empty ballpark<\/a> at the team\u2019s complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had nerves and excitement to go to the field,\u201d the reliever told The Post before the Mets faced the Marlins on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The session at Clover Park served as Garrett\u2019s first time pitching to batters since undergoing internal brace elbow reconstruction surgery last October after a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/18\/sports\/mets-put-reed-garrett-on-il-again-ahead-of-crucial-finishing-stretch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ligament tear was diagnosed<\/a>. Garrett also had a bone spur removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Reed Garrett woke up last Saturday with jitters.\u00a0 The Mets were preparing to face the Giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,8057,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428,7826],"class_list":["post-800158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-exclusive","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-surgery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117238310065587248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800158","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=800158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}