{"id":71739,"date":"2025-08-10T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:15:13","slug":"j-d-martinez-takes-trip-to-help-struggling-mookie-betts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71739\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Martinez takes trip to help struggling Mookie Betts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Martinez traveled to aid struggling superstar Mookie Betts (88 OPS plus) at a Tampa batting cage last weekend. The two teamed on the World Series champion 2018 Red Sox and 2023 Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/07\/sports\/how-the-mets-and-yankees-can-save-their-sinking-seasons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As suggested here previously<\/a>, Martinez could help his old Mets team.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets made four significant deals while still protecting their top prospects \u2014 INF\/OF Jett Williams, OF Carson Benge, and RHPs Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong and Brandon Sproat.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets did give up good infield prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/30\/sports\/mets-jesus-baez-finds-out-hes-in-ryan-helsey-trade-while-on-base\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Baez for Ryan Helsley<\/a>, but some don\u2019t see him staying at SS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.D. Martinez traveled to aid struggling superstar Mookie Betts (88 OPS plus) at a Tampa batting cage last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[51534,363,4286,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-71739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-j-d-martinez","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71739","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=71739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}