The Mets today said that bitching about changes to the 2010 uniforms will begin in December, later than originally scheduled, but timed to coincide with the period during which fans will bitch about the players acquired to wear them, so it will all work out.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, the following chart may help you navigate the upcoming shopping season, with a selection of free agents and potential tredees mentioned in recent rumors and speculation, their most recent uni number, and our analysis of the chances they maintain it with the Mets.<\/p>\n
Apologies for the ugly chart. They don’t pay me enough here to fix it.<\/p>\n
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Rumored Guy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Current Team\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uni No.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Available?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joel Pineiro\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St. Louis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a035\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sorta\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Technically belongs to Lance Broadway<\/p>\n Brandon Phillips\u00a0Cincinnati\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Wilson Valdez not on the 40<\/p>\n Aaron Harang\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati\u00a0\u00a0 39\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bobby Parnell could switch<\/p>\n Matt Holliday\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St. Louis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5\/15\u00a0Neither\u00a0\u00a0Wright and Beltran won\u2019t switch<\/p>\n Jason\u00a0Bay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boston\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 44\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sort of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tim Redding cannot make demands<\/p>\n John Lackey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anaheim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 41\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nope\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t ask<\/p>\n Ryan Doumit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pittsburgh\u00a0\u00a0 41\u00a0\u00a0 No\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See Above<\/p>\n Randy Wolf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a021\u00a0Yes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Delgado won\u2019t return<\/p>\n Jason Marquis\u00a0\u00a0Colorado\u00a021\u00a0Yes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0See above<\/p>\n Roy Halladay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Toronto\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 32\u00a0\u00a0 Yes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Unissued in 2009<\/p>\n Benji Molina\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Francisco\u00a01\u00a0No\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For now; Castillo is rumored to go<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mets today said that bitching about changes to the 2010 uniforms will begin in December, later than originally scheduled, but timed to coincide with the period during which fans will bitch about the players acquired to wear them, so it will all work out. With that in mind, the following chart may help you … Continue reading “Murder By Numbers”<\/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":[446],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jason-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","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=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}