{"id":594833,"date":"2026-04-20T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:24:08","slug":"the-mets-and-carlos-mendoza-are-entering-dangerous-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594833\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mets and Carlos Mendoza are entering dangerous territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 It\u2019s getting late early for these defeat-a-day Mets. The shocking 11th straight loss for baseball\u2019s second-highest-paid team moved them close to something akin to a final stage of grief.<\/p>\n<p>There are still 140 games to go. But yep, it\u2019s already defend-the-manager time.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not something anyone thought would be necessary for this star-studded club, certainly not yet. But here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Realistically, the uber-popular (in the clubhouse, anyway) Carlos Mendoza may need some help soon. With plenty of April left, the Mets aren\u2019t all that far from playing their way out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 It\u2019s getting late early for these defeat-a-day Mets. The shocking 11th straight loss for baseball\u2019s second-highest-paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[57951,4715,363,1189,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-594833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-devin-williams","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}