{"id":1160,"date":"2009-03-31T12:57:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T12:59:34","slug":"left-in-left-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Left In, Left Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-105\" alt=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Although recent roster cuts bled the organization of lefties including veterans\u00a0<strong>Ron Villone<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Valerio de los Santos<\/strong>, the team hasn&#8217;t stopped searching for Portside depth. On Monday, word came they signed Japanaese veteran\u00a0<strong>Ken Takahashi<\/strong>\u00a0to a minor league contract. Takahashi, who was recently released after an unsuccesful audition with the Blue Jays, is expected to report to Class AAA Buffalo. YouTube video out there shows him pitching for his former Hiroshima team wearing No. 22, now on the back of\u00a0<strong>JJ Putz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, looks like Rule 5 sidewinder\u00a0<strong>Darren O&#8217;Day<\/strong>\u00a0may sweat out the final bullpen slot, with<strong>Elmer Dessens<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Fernando Nieve<\/strong>\u00a0his competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Very busy with travel recently, but I plan to resume with the Top 10 countdown after we get through Opening Day: We&#8217;ll try to have the new rosters set, new player pages added, etc., later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although recent roster cuts bled the organization of lefties including veterans\u00a0Ron Villone\u00a0and\u00a0Valerio de los Santos, the team hasn&#8217;t stopped searching for Portside depth. On Monday, word came they signed Japanaese veteran\u00a0Ken Takahashi\u00a0to a minor league contract. Takahashi, who was recently released after an unsuccesful audition with the Blue Jays, is expected to report to Class &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Left In, Left Out&#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":[410,427,407,426],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-darren-oday","tag-elmer-dessens","tag-jj-putz","tag-ken-takahashi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","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=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}