{"id":1074,"date":"2008-10-23T01:06:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2013-12-06T01:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:08:51","slug":"deal-me-up-another-future-from-some-brand-new-deck-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Deal Me Up Another Future From Some Brand New Deck of Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word got out today that the Mets and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/manuel-jerry\">Jerry Manuel<\/a>\u00a0are to make some changes to the coaching staff next season. Base coaches\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/oberkfell-ken\">Ken Oberkfell<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/aguayo-luis\">Luis Aguayo<\/a>\u00a0will be offered new positions within the organization after joining the Mets concurrent with the Willie Randolph firing this past June.<\/p>\n<p>Aguayo&#8217;s replacement at third base will be none other than\u00a0<strong>Razor Shines,<\/strong>\u00a0a personal favorite of Jerry Manuel and of anyone who collects cool baseball names. Shines served to positive reviews under Manuel in Chicago &#8212; they were once both fringe infielders in the Expos&#8217; organization &#8212; and appears to have a pretty good reputation. He wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/18\">No. 18<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also announced that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/conti-guy\">Guy Conti<\/a>\u00a0would be reassigned and Met lifer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/niemann-randy\">Randy Niemann<\/a>\u00a0would return to the staff as bullpen coach.This would mark Niemann&#8217;s third stint with the major league staff &#8212; he served the same role under under\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/valentine-bobby\">Bobby Valentine<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/howe-art\">Art Howe<\/a>, racking up three uni numbers (<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/45\">45<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/48\">48<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/52\">52<\/a>) along the way. You might also not remember him as perhaps the least distinguished of the 1986 Mets&#8211; a lanky lefthanded reliever whose spotty Met career resulted in having worn Nos.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/46\">46<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/40\">40\u00a0<\/a>over parts of two seasons. That makes 5 unis so far, the overall record is in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also said Thursday that hitting coach Howard Johnson; pitching coach Dan Warthen, and father-and-son staffers Sandy Alomar Sr. and Jr., would return to their roles with the Mets in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word got out today that the Mets and\u00a0Jerry Manuel\u00a0are to make some changes to the coaching staff next season. Base coaches\u00a0Ken Oberkfell\u00a0and\u00a0Luis Aguayo\u00a0will be offered new positions within the organization after joining the Mets concurrent with the Willie Randolph firing this past June. Aguayo&#8217;s replacement at third base will be none other than\u00a0Razor Shines,\u00a0a personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deal Me Up Another Future From Some Brand New Deck of Cards&#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":[227,347,401,402],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jerry-manuel","tag-ken-oberkfell","tag-luis-aguayo","tag-razor-shines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","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=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}