PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Spring training overflows with familiar rituals: reporting dates, fielding drills for pitchers, a manager’s first address to his team, which can be unreasonably optimistic. But there are other routines that are less familiar to fans, and one of them has played out here in recent days as Mets players have taken turns doing video promotions for the coming season.

Before or after workouts, players have put on their formal attire — their white pinstriped home uniforms — and gone through an array of video stations in the visitors’ clubhouse.

The players were asked to pose, to hold a bat or maybe a glove, to smile or perhaps not, to stand here or there. Could they do that again? Josh Edgin caught popcorn in his mouth. Wilmer Flores twirled a Hula Hoop.

For some, the routine took two hours — for good reason, or so it would seem. This is the only time of the year when the Mets’ production arm and SNY, the team’s cable channel, have extended access to players, so SNY has been shooting the various player videos it plans to sprinkle through its six-month run of regular-season games.