{"id":141369,"date":"2026-02-22T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141369\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:30:10","slug":"mets-freddy-peralta-believes-he-hasnt-reached-his-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141369\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Freddy Peralta believes he hasn&#8217;t reached his peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Freddy Peralta was quick to attach a qualifier Saturday when reminded that last season was his best as a major league pitcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For emphasis, he repeated it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Such was a reminder that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/freddy-peraltas-mets-acclimation-takes-first-spring-training-step\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new Mets ace<\/a> doesn\u2019t believe he has peaked. There is still new territory to conquer, and Peralta views last season as a launch point.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Freddy Peralta was quick to attach a qualifier Saturday when reminded that last season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34723,20,9,11,320,10,319,431,428,55941],"class_list":{"0":"post-141369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-freddy-peralta","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-spring-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}