{"id":180181,"date":"2026-03-06T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:33:07","slug":"the-key-for-kodai-senga-as-he-looks-to-shed-his-mets-enigma-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180181\/","title":{"rendered":"The key for Kodai Senga as he looks to shed his Mets enigma label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 As the Mets rotation takes shape this spring, with Sean Manaea slated to make his first Grapefruit League start Friday as the lefty looks to bounce back from a rough 2025, Kodai Senga\u2019s impact on the team is anyone\u2019s guess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will he be the force he was for most of the first half of last year, when he was leading the majors with a 1.47 ERA before suffering a hamstring injury while <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/12\/sports\/mets-pete-alonso-still-feels-awful-over-kodai-senga-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">catching a high throw from Pete Alonso<\/a> at first base?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or will he be the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/11\/sports\/kodai-senga-out-to-prove-he-can-stay-healthy-be-key-mets-option\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injury-prone enigma<\/a> he was for the latter part of 2025, as well as almost all of 2024?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through the early part of spring, the right-hander has felt and looked good.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 As the Mets rotation takes shape this spring, with Sean Manaea slated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71804,3817,12193,171,173,172,110,45911,20253],"class_list":["post-180181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180181","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=180181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}