{"id":1261,"date":"2009-08-03T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:23:28","slug":"full-nelson-plus-bonus-triva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Full Nelson (plus Bonus Triva)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/27.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-110\" alt=\"27\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/27.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Sure,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/figueroa-nelson\">Nelson Figueroa\u00a0<\/a>may have completely screwed up the one and only thing he was asked to do tonight, but let&#8217;s not be too quick to brand his latest recall a complete failure. After all, this cry for help marked Figueroa&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>fifth addition to the Mets&#8217; 40-man roster,<\/strong>\u00a0tying him for the all-time lead in this category with the illustrious\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/difelice-mike\">Mike DiFelice<\/a>, whose late career yo-yoing was so magnificent the Mets finally gave him a permanent job &#8212; in the minor leagues. He&#8217;s managing the Mets&#8217; Appalacian League club in Kingsport, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a special kind of ballplayer that can be cut loose four times and rehired five times, and Figueroa deserves extra credit for having done so in a single big-league uni number,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/27\">27<\/a>\u00a0(DiFelice collected three unis over his five appearances). In fact, notes MBTN Roster Scientist Jason E., only nine men in Met history (including the aformentioned two) have been added to the 40-man roster as many as four times.<\/p>\n<p>For fun, I will provide six of the remaining players. You tell me the seventh!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/feliciano-pedro\">Pedro Feliciano<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hurdle-clint\">Clint Hurdle<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/johnson-mark\">Mark Johnson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/leach-terry\">Terry Leach<\/a>, J<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/manzanillo-josias\">osias Manzanillo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/velandia-jorge\">Jorge Velandia<\/a>\u00a0have all been added to the Mets 40-man roster on four occasions. Who is the remaining 4-time addition? Winner gets a beer on me.<\/p>\n<p>Figueroa&#8217;s addition by the way resulted in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/misch-pat\">Pat Misch<\/a>\u00a0being optioned to AAA Buffalo. On Sunday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sheffield-gary\">Gary Sheffield<\/a>\u00a0returned and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cancel-robinson\">Robinson Cancel<\/a>\u00a0was returned to Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure,\u00a0Nelson Figueroa\u00a0may have completely screwed up the one and only thing he was asked to do tonight, but let&#8217;s not be too quick to brand his latest recall a complete failure. After all, this cry for help marked Figueroa&#8217;s\u00a0fifth addition to the Mets&#8217; 40-man roster,\u00a0tying him for the all-time lead in this category with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full Nelson (plus Bonus Triva)&#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":[187,353],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mike-difelice","tag-nelson-figueroa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","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=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}