{"id":1220,"date":"2009-06-05T14:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2018-05-19T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T13:00:06","slug":"fernandomania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Fernandomania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Mets recalled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/nieve-fernando\">Fernando Nieve<\/a>\u00a0from AAA Buffalo to take the place of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/putz-jj\">JJ Putz<\/a>\u00a0who finally stopped pretending there wasn&#8217;t something wrong with his arm. Nieve has reportedly been assigned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/38\">No. 38<\/a>. Nieve wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/50\">No. 50<\/a>\u00a0in spring training, but that number went to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/green-sean\">Sean Green<\/a>\u00a0once Green decided he was unworthy of comparisons to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/heilman-aaron\">Aaron Heilman<\/a>(how right he was) and swapped in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/48\">No. 48<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not to say I told you so but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we smelled trouble<\/a>\u00a0long before this Putz-Green-Heilman deal ever got done inasmuch as &#8220;addition by subtraction&#8221; is a concept that works great in opinion columns and talk radio but rarely on the baseball field. I&#8217;m not saying that time hadn&#8217;t come to swap away Heilman (not to mention\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/chavez-endy\">Endy Chavez<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/smith-joe\">Joe Smith<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/vargas-jason\">Jason Vargas<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Makiel Cleto<\/strong>,and\u00a0<strong>Mike Carp<\/strong>) but seeing as we&#8217;re looking at a $9 million fat guy having elbow surgery, a righty specialist who&#8217;s already lost his job, and a reserve outfielder, this whole deal is looking pretty much like &#8220;subtraction by subtraction&#8221; so far.<\/p>\n<p>Nieve by the way will be the third Fernando in uniform for the Mets, which has to be some kind of record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Mets recalled\u00a0Fernando Nieve\u00a0from AAA Buffalo to take the place of\u00a0JJ Putz\u00a0who finally stopped pretending there wasn&#8217;t something wrong with his arm. Nieve has reportedly been assigned\u00a0No. 38. Nieve wore\u00a0No. 50\u00a0in spring training, but that number went to\u00a0Sean Green\u00a0once Green decided he was unworthy of comparisons to\u00a0Aaron Heilman(how right he was) and swapped in\u00a0No. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fernandomania&#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":[108,215,425,280,407,304,409],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-heilman","tag-endy-chavez","tag-fernando-nieve","tag-jason-vargas","tag-jj-putz","tag-joe-smith","tag-sean-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}