{"id":1042,"date":"2008-08-21T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T21:21:11","slug":"you-can-call-me-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"You Can Call Me Al"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&#8230;because calling him &#8220;Reyes&#8221; would be kinda confusing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/28.gif\" width=\"74\" height=\"53\" align=\"right\" \/>The Mets have signed erstwhile Tampa Bay closer and journeyman\u00a0<strong>Al Reyes<\/strong>\u00a0to a minor league deal, following his recent release by the Rays. He&#8217;s down in Class AA getting back into playing shape but could wind up being useful now that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/wagner-billy\">Billy Wagner<\/a>&#8216;s absence will extend for another few weeks at least.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/28\">No. 28<\/a>\u00a0most recently for Tampa Bay but I suspect after suffering demotions, taserings, releasings and Class AA assignments, a player unofficially surrenders whatever equity he had in a number as well. Besides, 28 already belongs to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/murphy-dan\">Dan &#8220;Robocop&#8221; Murphy<\/a>, and if they screw with him even a little, they&#8217;re crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Nice to see the Mets winning the games they&#8217;re supposed to be winning, even while the offense scares me a little and the bullpen scares me a lot. Bring on Houston &#8230; and revenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;because calling him &#8220;Reyes&#8221; would be kinda confusing. The Mets have signed erstwhile Tampa Bay closer and journeyman\u00a0Al Reyes\u00a0to a minor league deal, following his recent release by the Rays. He&#8217;s down in Class AA getting back into playing shape but could wind up being useful now that\u00a0Billy Wagner&#8216;s absence will extend for another few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Can Call Me Al&#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":[388],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-reyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","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=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}