{"id":1092,"date":"2008-12-18T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2013-12-06T01:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:55:29","slug":"its-not-like-theyre-going-to-sell-out-of-jerseys-with-putz-on-the-back-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Like They&#8217;re Going to Sell Out of Jerseys With PUTZ on the Back Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/putz40.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"238\" \/>At the press conference this afternoon introducing\u00a0<strong>JJ Putz<\/strong>\u00a0as a member of the Mets they issued him a jersey with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/40\">No. 40<\/a>\u00a0on it. That jersey most recently belonged to chubby reserve catcher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cancel-robinson\">Robinson Cancel<\/a>\u00a0and before that,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/burgos-ambiorix\">Ambiorix Burgos<\/a>\u00a0who was not offered a contract last week and became a free agent at least in baseball terms.<\/p>\n<p>Putz remarked to reporters afterward that he&#8217;d ask coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/johnson-howard\">Howard Johnson<\/a>\u00a0about the possibility of taking over his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/20\">No. 20<\/a>\u00a0jersey when the games start this spring. I&#8217;d guess HoJo gives the OK, though I&#8217;ve always preferred the No. 20 jersey stay on the back of hitters (like HoJo, Agee, Burnitz&#8230; and Ken Henderson).It hasn&#8217;t been worn by a pitcher since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/bottalico-ricky\">Ricky Bottalico<\/a>in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">2001<\/span>\u00a02004 (thanks commenters).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Trivia:\u00a0<\/strong>Without looking it up, how many Met pitchers can you name who wore No. 20? (there have been six including Bottalico)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the press conference this afternoon introducing\u00a0JJ Putz\u00a0as a member of the Mets they issued him a jersey with\u00a0No. 40\u00a0on it. That jersey most recently belonged to chubby reserve catcher\u00a0Robinson Cancel\u00a0and before that,\u00a0Ambiorix Burgos\u00a0who was not offered a contract last week and became a free agent at least in baseball terms. Putz remarked to reporters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Like They&#8217;re Going to Sell Out of Jerseys With PUTZ on the Back Anyway&#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":[387],"tags":[290,407,172],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni-controversies","tag-howard-johnson","tag-jj-putz","tag-ricky-bottalico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","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=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}