Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil are still MIA. Has anybody written any coverage about why presumably healthy veteran players are held out of game action while the likes of Lindor and Alonso have been trotted out every other day? I'm guessing they're working on something.
Anyhow, reliever Reed Garrett gets first crack at the Cardinals as the 3-1 Mets have a good chance to catch the first-place Orioles in the Grapefruit League standings, because NOTHING says "ACTION!" like the word "grapefruit"!
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | Pos. | # | Player | Pos. |
| 1 | Dylan Carlson (S) | cf | 1 | Starling Marte (R) | rf |
| 2 | Alec Burleson (L) | rf | 2 | Francisco Lindor (S) | ss |
| 3 | Nolan Gorman (L) | 2b | 3 | Pete Alonso (R) | 1b |
| 4 | Luken Baker (R) | dh | 4 | DJ Stewart (L) | lf |
| 5 | Alfonso Rivas (L) | lf | 5 | Mark Vientos (R) | dh |
| 6 | Jared Young (L) | 1b | 6 | Brett Baty (L) | 3b |
| 7 | Pedro Pagés (R) | c | 7 | Trayce Thompson (R) | cf |
| 8 | José Fermín (R) | 3b | 8 | Yolmer Sánchez (S) | 2b |
| 9 | Arquímedes Gamboa (S) | ss | 9 | Tomás Nido (R) | c |
| Miles Mikolos (R) | sp | Reed Garrett (R) | sp |
That's an impressive six acute accents in today's opening lineup card — a total that's doubly impressive when you consider that it's a total shutout of Team Accent Grave, Team Tilde, the Cedillas, the Circumflexes, and Die Umlauts.
