{"id":192159,"date":"2026-03-15T03:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192159\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:59:06","slug":"five-observations-about-the-mets-as-opening-day-inches-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192159\/","title":{"rendered":"Five observations about the Mets as Opening Day inches closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Mets will play another week of exhibition games before finalizing a roster that was largely set even before the first full-squad workout this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This assessment was provided Saturday by Jorge Polanco, who (for what it\u2019s worth) is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/12\/sports\/mets-jorge-polanco-goes-deep-again-as-he-heats-up-after-slow-start\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thriving in his first camp<\/a> with the Mets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, it\u2019s a great team,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we have all we need to win a World Series.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, the Mets have to reach Opening Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Mets will play another week of exhibition games before finalizing a roster that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3817,12193,171,173,172,110,45912,45911,20253],"class_list":["post-192159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192159","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=192159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}