{"id":1010,"date":"2008-07-29T03:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2013-12-05T03:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:12:14","slug":"willies-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Willie&#8217;s Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that Willie, silly. Though his habit of dumb sacrifice bunts accomplishing nothing carries on in the new era. We&#8217;re talking about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/collazo-willie\">Willie Collazo<\/a>, the little lefthander whose jersey name-on-back was misspelled last season, much to the amusement of geeks everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Collazo was recalled Sunday following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/knight-brandon\">Brandon Knight<\/a>&#8216;s start in place of greiving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/martinez-pedro-0\">Pedro Martinez<\/a>\u00a0and issued\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/36\">No. 36<\/a>, the same jersey he wore last season. Knight, who rebounded after a shaky first inning in his only Met appearance and wound up with a no-decision, is on his way to Bejing with Team USA. Pedro is on his back to the Mets and penciled to start on Friday albeit with a strict pitch count.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see who his teammates turn out to be that night, the first after Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline. With the bullpen demonstrating once again it could use an upgrade; with the health of Pedro and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/church-ryan\">Ryan Church<\/a>\u00a0remaining so mysterious; with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/anderson-marlon\">Marlon Anderson<\/a>\u00a0still employed; and with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/maine-john\">John Maine<\/a>\u00a0headed for an MRI on his shoulder, anything seems possible. It is to their credit the Mets have thrived the way they have during this difficult stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that Willie, silly. Though his habit of dumb sacrifice bunts accomplishing nothing carries on in the new era. We&#8217;re talking about\u00a0Willie Collazo, the little lefthander whose jersey name-on-back was misspelled last season, much to the amusement of geeks everywhere. Collazo was recalled Sunday following\u00a0Brandon Knight&#8216;s start in place of greiving\u00a0Pedro Martinez\u00a0and issued\u00a0No. 36, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1010\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Willie&#8217;s Back!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,173,377,328],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-maine","tag-marlon-anderson","tag-ryan-chiurch","tag-willie-collazo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}