{"id":146228,"date":"2026-02-26T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146228\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:10:25","slug":"francisco-alvarez-takes-next-step-on-his-mets-comeback-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146228\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Alvarez takes next step on his Mets comeback trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Observations from Mets spring training on Wednesday:<\/p>\n

Back in Action<\/p>\n

Francisco Alvarez played his first game of the spring, going 0-for-2 as the DH. He is scheduled to catch in a simulated game on a backfield in Port St. Lucie on Thursday and make his spring debut behind the plate for the Mets on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"NewFrancisco Alvarez and pitching coach Justin Willard confer in the bullpen during Spring Training at Clover Field, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Corey Sipkin for NY Post<\/p>\n

If At 1st You Don\u2019t Succeed \u2026<\/p>\n

Mark Vientos went too far to his right on a grounder by Nolan Gorman in the first, but Grae Kessinger was there to make the play to end the inning. <\/p>\n

Vientos also made a nice scoop on a long throw from Vidal Bruj\u00e1n in the fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDelivering insights on all things Amazin\u2019s\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Mets by Mike Puma, exclusively on Sports+\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Caught by Eye<\/p>\n

Juan Soto sat next to Eli Manning on Tuesday night at a TGL golf event and said it was his first time meeting the retired Giants quarterback. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely a humble man,\u201d Soto said. \u201cIt was cool to talk to a legend like that.\u201d <\/p>\n

The conversation, Soto said, focused mainly on golf \u2014 although they chatted about New York, as well.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s Schedule<\/p>\n

Nolan McLean will make the start for the Mets, who face the Astros in West Palm Beach, Fla., at 1:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Mets spring training on Wednesday: Back in Action Francisco Alvarez played his first game of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61278,35580,20,9,11,320,10,319,55941],"class_list":{"0":"post-146228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-francisco-alvarez","9":"tag-mark-vientos","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-spring-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146228","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=146228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}