{"id":2738,"date":"2014-04-25T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2014-04-25T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T13:15:20","slug":"strong-starts-are-wonderful-but-its-early-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2014\/04\/25\/strong-starts-are-wonderful-but-its-early-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Starts Are Wonderful, But It&#8217;s Early Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Citi Field\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-xa_rRMQMyfo\/U1cn6UqIbLI\/AAAAAAABAaM\/iYOa6KI4Zvw\/w1598-h899-no\/20140422_201136.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Ceetar\" width=\"959\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mets are 12-10, and that&#8217;s great. That puts them right in the thick of things and there are a lot of encouraging signs too. The hitting, particularly established veterans like David Wright and Curtis Granderson, haven&#8217;t really started hitting yet. That means more offense is to come and that can only help. The Mets are doing it on pitching and defense, which is a great formula when it works, and is refreshing to watch. The Mets aren&#8217;t throwing games up the right field line and having soft fly balls drop in for doubles and are instead turning well struck balls into outs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, 22 games is a very small sample in the grand scheme of things and this wouldn&#8217;t be the first time the Mets got off to a good start. \u00a0It&#8217;s great to be encouraged, especially with the way the rotation looks and the reinforcements in the minors, but we&#8217;ve still got a long way to go. Let&#8217;s enjoy this stretch and see if we can even improve on it a little bit playing some lower quality teams than those we&#8217;ve seen so far. Whether it&#8217;s fleeting or not, let&#8217;s enjoy the success we&#8217;re seeing and worry about what it means and what the Mets should do about it later on in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are 12-10, and that&#8217;s great. That puts them right in the thick of things and there are a lot of encouraging signs too. The hitting, particularly established veterans like David Wright and Curtis Granderson, haven&#8217;t really started hitting yet. That means more offense is to come and that can only help. The Mets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2014\/04\/25\/strong-starts-are-wonderful-but-its-early-still\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong Starts Are Wonderful, But It&#8217;s Early Still&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2892,3],"tags":[2964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}