{"id":1330,"date":"2010-01-08T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2013-12-08T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:11:19","slug":"one-of-our-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"One of Our Submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It may not ever come to anything but happened to notice when the Mets today moved to claim lefthanded pitcher\u00a0Jay Marshall<\/strong>\u00a0off waivers from the Athletics. Marshall, a true submariner in the\u00a0Chad Bradford<\/a>\u00a0style, continues a trend among Omar Minaya’s Mets teams to include or at least invite a few trick pitchers to camp each year. Marshall this spring will join the lefty-righty siderarm tandem of\u00a0Pedro Feliciano\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Sean Green<\/a>\u00a0(and another candidate with an unusual offering, knuckleballer R.A. Dickey). There was\u00a0Joe Smith<\/a>\u00a0and Bradford before that, and guys like Steve Schmoll and\u00a0Shingo Takatsu<\/a>\u00a0were given a shot.<\/p>\n

Is this a good thing? I’m not entirely sure. While Feliciano has become one of the Mets’ best weapons vs. rival lefty sluggers and Green and Smith often got grounders when they needed them I’d prefer sometimes they could achieve these successes without also tempting the Mets to try and solve all their problems with matchups and specialists. It can grind games to a halt, for one thing, and all seems so delicate: One specialist springs a leak, and suddenly the whole ship is sinking. We’ve seen it before.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, sidearmers are fun to watch when they’re going well and the Mets’ desire to bring these creatures in house indicates some evidence they have a plan, and I like that kind of reassurance.<\/p>\n

\"Innis<\/p>\n

At any rate, surely we’re in a Golden Age for Met sideslingers. I barely remember a one from my childhood when guys like Kent Tekulve, Elias Sosa and Dan Quisenberry were someone else’s property.\u00a0David Cone<\/a>\u00a0was known to get sideways occasionally, and\u00a0Jeff Innis<\/a>\u00a0was a durable middle-inning submariner for a long stretch, — and there was\u00a0Jesse<\/a>\u00a0–but I’m going blank after that, although I’m sure I’m overlooking a few. Little help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may not ever come to anything but happened to notice when the Mets today moved to claim lefthanded pitcher\u00a0Jay Marshall\u00a0off waivers from the Athletics. Marshall, a true submariner in the\u00a0Chad Bradford\u00a0style, continues a trend among Omar Minaya’s Mets teams to include or at least invite a few trick pitchers to camp each year. Marshall … Continue reading “One of Our Submarines”<\/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":[214,455,304,87,409,464],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chad-bradford","tag-jeff-innis","tag-joe-smith","tag-pedro-feliciano","tag-sean-green","tag-steve-schmoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","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=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}