{"id":1050,"date":"2008-08-28T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:56:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T21:56:23","slug":"jump-n-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Jump n&#8217; The Saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/73.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-159\" alt=\"73\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/73.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>I thought we&#8217;d seen the last of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/figueroa-nelson\">Nelson Figueroa<\/a>, but back he came Wednesday night as reinforcement for a Met bullpen that also looking like it might never recover. His recall forced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-argenis\">Argenis Reyes<\/a>\u00a0to head back to New Orleans, though it is certain he will back when rosters expand Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Also returning is catcher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cancel-robinson\">Robinson Cancel<\/a>, activated as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castro-ramon\">Ramon Castro<\/a>\u00a0hits the DL with a quad strain. How did Cancel ever get ahead of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/casanova-raul\">Raul Casanova<\/a>\u00a0(hitting well in New Orleans) in the pecking order among lumpy veteran backup catchers?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of veteran longshots, lefty reliever\u00a0<strong>Ricardo Rincon<\/strong>\u00a0has been returned to the Mets organization after spending the summer on loan to the Mexico City Reds. Rincon, noted for having worn\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/73\">No. 73<\/a>\u00a0wherever he&#8217;s pitched, joins the list of candidates to join the beleaguered bullpen as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought we&#8217;d seen the last of\u00a0Nelson Figueroa, but back he came Wednesday night as reinforcement for a Met bullpen that also looking like it might never recover. His recall forced\u00a0Argenis Reyes\u00a0to head back to New Orleans, though it is certain he will back when rosters expand Monday. Also returning is catcher\u00a0Robinson Cancel, activated as\u00a0Ramon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jump n&#8217; The Saddle&#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":[372,353,391,367],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argenis-reyes","tag-nelson-figueroa","tag-ricardo-rincon","tag-robinson-cancel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}