Francisco Lindor\u00a0earned the nickname Mr. Smile for a reason, and he just delivered a whole bunch of them with one of the cutest interviews we\u2019ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mets\u2019 superstar shortstop sat down in the dugout with an up-and-coming reporter: his 5-year-old daughter Kalina. Kalina peppered her dad with rapid-fire questions in a roughly five-minute video posted to the Mets\u2019 YouTube account<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the best ones Kalina posed to pops? Who would win in a race, who\u2019s the boss at home and what Kalina wants to be when she grows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ll also have to stick around for Lindor\u2019s take on cookies — and Kalina\u2019s instant jab that she makes good ones, too. One of Lindor\u2019s other children, younger daughter Amapola, crashed the party just before things wrapped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lindor begins his sixth season with the Mets on Thursday, when New York hosts the Pirates at 1:15 p.m. ET on NBC\/Peacock<\/a>. The five-time All-Star worked back from surgery to remove his left hamate bone during Spring Training, and he said he\u2019s already started to feel mostly like himself<\/a> after playing five games in camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Francisco Lindor\u00a0earned the nickname Mr. Smile for a reason, and he just delivered a whole bunch of them with one of the cutest interviews we\u2019ve seen in a long time. The Mets\u2019 superstar shortstop sat down in the dugout with an up-and-coming reporter: his 5-year-old daughter Kalina. Kalina peppered her dad with rapid-fire questions in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-mlb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fj3ouulkxndzfrfvngzn-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligadom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}