{"id":1169,"date":"2009-04-06T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2017-04-03T05:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:48:40","slug":"opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another long offseason comes to an end, weather permitting, today. I’m trying to keep positive despite knowing I could make a perfectly valid argument that all five starting pitchers — four currently on ther roster — could be in for a long year.<\/p>\n

Welcoming the following seven men to the All-Time Mets Roster, and thanks again to readers for the updates:<\/p>\n

3\u00a0Alex Cora<\/p>\n

10\u00a0Gary Sheffield
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18\u00a0Jeremy Reed<\/a><\/p>\n

22\u00a0JJ Putz<\/p>\n

36\u00a0Darren O’Day<\/p>\n


\n50\u00a0Sean Green*
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75\u00a0Frankie Rodriguez<\/p>\n

We also welcome new coaches\u00a0Luis Alicea, wearing No. 51 and\u00a0Razor Shines, wearing No. 52.Randy Niemann\u00a0is back as a coach, wearing a new issue, 55.<\/p>\n

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*–A commenter below provides the update from press notes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another long offseason comes to an end, weather permitting, today. I’m trying to keep positive despite knowing I could make a perfectly valid argument that all five starting pitchers — four currently on ther roster — could be in for a long year. Welcoming the following seven men to the All-Time Mets Roster, and thanks … Continue reading “Opening Day!”<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}