{"id":1015,"date":"2008-08-02T03:18:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2013-12-05T03:20:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:20:45","slug":"your-move-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Your Move, Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/robocop.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"188\" \/>Adam Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/2008\/08\/01\/2008-08-01_daniel_murphys_triplea_career_lasts_one_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News today writes<\/a>\u00a0that 23-year-old infielder\u00a0<strong>Dan Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0is en route to Houston in time for tonight&#8217;s game. Although Rubin hasn&#8217;t said who Murphy will replace, we can hope, I mean, speculate, that it&#8217;s gimpy struggling\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/anderson-marlon\">Marlon Anderson<\/a>, who&#8217;s just having a terrible season and like Murphy (reportedly), bats left and plays poorly in several positions.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy is one of the &#8220;Big 5&#8221; youngsters mentioned by\u00a0<strong>Omar Minaya<\/strong>\u00a0in press comments this week explaining why the Mets chose not to particpate in what was probably the most spectacular trade deadline season in recent memory, despite contending for a division title with obvious holes in the outfield and the bench, and serious questions surrounding the rotation and bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Just speculating here but with Murphy a potential solution to left-handed bench strength, the other four may fill holes in the outfield (<strong>Fernando Martinez<\/strong>), bullpen (Bingo closer\u00a0<strong>Eddie Kunz<\/strong>) and rotation (<strong>Jon Niese<\/strong>, who&#8217;s also being condsidered for Aug. 11 start, Rubin says; and\u00a0<strong>Bobby Parnell<\/strong>, who might also help in the bullpen). That solution may call for a lot of speculation and wishful thinking, but it&#8217;s more help than we got at the deadline so let&#8217;s see. In a matter of taste, sure beats hoping that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/conine-jeff\">Jeff Conine<\/a>\u00a0will help.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll update you on Murphy&#8217;s number when we get it and in the meantime direct your attention to the new poll on the left column, reviving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/pick-number-win-prize\" target=\"_blank\">the discussion we had<\/a>\u00a0earlier this season on what number Fernando Martinez (I prefer &#8220;Fartinez&#8221; to &#8220;F-Mart,&#8221; don&#8217;t you?) alights in if\/when he gets the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Rubin\u00a0of the\u00a0Daily News today writes\u00a0that 23-year-old infielder\u00a0Dan Murphy\u00a0is en route to Houston in time for tonight&#8217;s game. Although Rubin hasn&#8217;t said who Murphy will replace, we can hope, I mean, speculate, that it&#8217;s gimpy struggling\u00a0Marlon Anderson, who&#8217;s just having a terrible season and like Murphy (reportedly), bats left and plays poorly in several positions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Move, Creep&#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":[382,379,381,350,380,173,166],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bobby-parnell","tag-daniel-murphy","tag-eddie-kunz","tag-fernando-martinez","tag-jonathon-niese","tag-marlon-anderson","tag-omar-minaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","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=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}