{"id":1089,"date":"2008-12-12T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2013-12-06T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T21:31:16","slug":"play-that-funky-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Play That Funky Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets followed up on their acquisitions of\u00a0<strong>Frankie Rodriguez<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>JJ Putz<\/strong>\u00a0by selecting another pair of relievers,\u00a0<strong>Darren O&#8217;Day<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Rocky Cherry,<\/strong>\u00a0in the Rule 5 Draft Thursday. And tonight came word that they&#8217;d sent beaten-up lefty\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/schoeneweis-scott\">Scott Schoeneweis<\/a>\u00a0to Arizona for another longshot relief prospect,\u00a0<strong>Connor Robertson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Day is a 26-year-old right-handed sidearmer out of the Angels organization, an undrafted free agent, who gets by on his whacky delivery. Like\u00a0<strong>Steven Register<\/strong>\u00a0last year, and\u00a0<strong>Mitch Wylie<\/strong>\u00a0the year before, Omar if nothing else seems to recognize there are fringe arms out there with the potential to be contributors in a bullpen, and if he weren&#8217;t out there handing out three-and four-year contracts to every veteran in sight, one of these guys might one day stick with the Mets. For selfish purposes lets hope it&#8217;s (Wild) Cherry, who&#8217;s had limited big-league success with the Cubs and Orioles, and several injury problems, but throws hard and has a big-league name that will make him hard to hate.<\/p>\n<p>Schoeneweis, swapped along with a portion of his salary to the Diamondbacks today for Robertson, had a poor 2007 but seems to have been sacrificed mainly to fulfill Jeff Wilpon&#8217;s promise of &#8220;addition of subtraction&#8221; for bloodthirsty fans. No, I&#8217;m not arguing Schoeneweis was necessarily worth keeping, or even that Robertson &#8212; another longshot bullpenner with limited big-league success but good minor league strikeout figures &#8212; doesn&#8217;t belong; just that, I&#8217;d be very surprised if we don&#8217;t go out and get another lefthander anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The Show was the first and only player to wear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/60\">No. 60<\/a>\u00a0in team history. O&#8217;Day wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/53\">No. 53<\/a>\u00a0last season. If this is becoming the new digit for sidearmers (<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/bradford-chad\">Chad Bradford<\/a>\u00a0requests it wherever he goes),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/manuel-jerry\">Jerry Manuel\u00a0<\/a>may want a change.Robertson wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/41\">41<\/a>\u00a0last year. Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the Mets will have acquired all wearers of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/57\">No. 57<\/a>\u00a0jersey. Cherry wore 57 with the O&#8217;s last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets followed up on their acquisitions of\u00a0Frankie Rodriguez\u00a0and\u00a0JJ Putz\u00a0by selecting another pair of relievers,\u00a0Darren O&#8217;Day\u00a0and\u00a0Rocky Cherry,\u00a0in the Rule 5 Draft Thursday. And tonight came word that they&#8217;d sent beaten-up lefty\u00a0Scott Schoeneweis\u00a0to Arizona for another longshot relief prospect,\u00a0Connor Robertson. O&#8217;Day is a 26-year-old right-handed sidearmer out of the Angels organization, an undrafted free agent, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play That Funky Music&#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":[410,299],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-darren-oday","tag-scott-schoeneweis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","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=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}