{"id":148495,"date":"2026-02-09T03:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148495\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:28:10","slug":"see-it-mets-francisco-alvarez-arrives-in-port-st-lucie-kodai-senga-throws-bullpen-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148495\/","title":{"rendered":"SEE IT: Mets&#8217; Francisco Alvarez arrives in Port St. Lucie, Kodai Senga throws bullpen session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/teams\/mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mets<\/a> pitchers and catchers don\u2019t have to officially report to Port St. Lucie until next week, but more and more players have been trickling in over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Alvarez was the latest to arrive on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The young backstop played catch with right-hander Christian Scott, then went and got some defense work in, doing some catching drills on the backfields.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly encouraging to see Alvarez getting in some early work.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is coming off another injury-plagued campaign, but he showed signs of a his prolific power-hitting form after returning, hitting .276 with 18 XBH\u2019s and a .921 OPS in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>If he can stay healthy and build off that strong finish it would certainly be huge for this lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez wasn\u2019t the only Met to get some work in on Sunday, as Scott threw a bullpen session while both Nolan McLean and Jonah Tong threw live BP on the backfields.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kodai Senga also threw a bullpen with pitching coach Justin Willard looking on.<\/p>\n<p>Senga is coming off another injury-plagued campaign in which he struggled down the stretch, but the Mets are said to be encouraged by what they\u2019ve seen from him this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at all the action from PSL\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets pitchers and catchers don\u2019t have to officially report to Port St. Lucie until next week, but more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[70674,71254,70673,71804,42159,70677,171,173,172,71805],"class_list":["post-148495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-christian-scott","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-jonah-tong","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mets","tag-nolan-mclean","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sny-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}