{"id":1308,"date":"2009-12-04T18:18:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:19:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:19:59","slug":"blanco-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Blanco Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets on Thursday signed chubby veteran defensive specialist\u00a0<strong>Henry Blanco\u00a0<\/strong>to further bolster a catching corps that earlier in the week landed\u00a0<strong>Chris Coste\u00a0<\/strong>and apparently isn&#8217;t done shopping yet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/8.gif\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" align=\"left\" \/>The Mets will become Blanco&#8217;s 8th team in 12 years. His numerical history is just as busy, having worn 54 (Dodgers), 35 (Rockies), 12 (Twins), 20 (Braves), 21 (Twins), 9 and 24 (Cubs) and most recently, 28 with the Padres.Given that Blanco looks to inherit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/santos-omir\">Omir Santos<\/a>&#8216; old role as primary reserve, he could wind up in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/9\">No. 9<\/a>, but I think he takes what he gets. Surely he&#8217;s a better bet for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/23\">23<\/a>\u00a0jersey\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/schneider-brian\">Brian Schneider<\/a>\u00a0just gave away. Or they could salute themslves for being Blanco&#8217;s newest employer and dust off the old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/8\">No. 8<\/a>\u00a0that&#8217;s been in storage for years while they tentatively wrestle with the idea of honoring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/carter-gary\">Gary Carter<\/a>. But I wouldn&#8217;t count on that.<\/p>\n<p>Who Blanco caddies for remains a mystery. The Mets are said to admire Bengie Molina though I cannot understand why. As said before perhaps they look into a trade. Ryan Doumit of Pittsburgh? Dionner Navarro of the Rays? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jack Looney&#8217;s indespensable NOW BATTING NUMBER for the Blanco history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets on Thursday signed chubby veteran defensive specialist\u00a0Henry Blanco\u00a0to further bolster a catching corps that earlier in the week landed\u00a0Chris Coste\u00a0and apparently isn&#8217;t done shopping yet. The Mets will become Blanco&#8217;s 8th team in 12 years. His numerical history is just as busy, having worn 54 (Dodgers), 35 (Rockies), 12 (Twins), 20 (Braves), 21 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blanco Inc.&#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":[450,415],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-henry-blanco","tag-omir-santos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}