{"id":1106,"date":"2009-01-14T03:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2013-12-06T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:26:26","slug":"its-the-magic-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Magic Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3.gif\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>According to the Internet, and a rumor that seems to have been around for months now, the Mets are expected to announce that they&#8217;ve signed veteran reserve infielder\u00a0<strong>Alex Cora\u00a0<\/strong>to a 1-year contrract. Cora, a lefthanded hitter, is expected to be the primary middle infield defensive backup, and comes to the Mets with the kind of reputation for the intangibles Omar Minaya cannot resist.<\/p>\n<p>Cora in his 11-year career has most frequently worn\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/3\">No. 3<\/a>\u00a0and more recently,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/13\">No. 13<\/a>: With 3 recently surrendered by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/easley-damian\">Damian Easley<\/a>\u00a0and 13 belonging nominally to potential late-season callup\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/wagner-billy\">Billy Wagner<\/a>, we&#8217;d bet (and bet big) he winds up in 3. It&#8217;s a nice wussyish benchwarming shortstop number after all, Ruth notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>In other new-Met news, Marty Noble of mlb.com\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20090109&amp;content_id=3738335&amp;vkey=news_nym&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=nym\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<strong>Tim Redding<\/strong>\u00a0knew that jersey\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/44\">No. 44<\/a>\u00a0at one time belonged to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cone-david\">David Cone<\/a>\u00a0(nice!) but that had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/23\">23<\/a>\u00a0been available he&#8217;d have taken it instead for &#8230; Don Mattingly (what?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Internet, and a rumor that seems to have been around for months now, the Mets are expected to announce that they&#8217;ve signed veteran reserve infielder\u00a0Alex Cora\u00a0to a 1-year contrract. Cora, a lefthanded hitter, is expected to be the primary middle infield defensive backup, and comes to the Mets with the kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s the Magic Number&#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":[413,326,107],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alex-cora","tag-damian-easley","tag-david-cone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","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=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}