{"id":1351,"date":"2010-02-12T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2013-12-08T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:22:11","slug":"more-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"More Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are hitting the leftovers like the day after Thanksgiving. Only hours after posting the numerical roster below, one number,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/35\">35<\/a>, came available again when the Mets claimed outfielder\u00a0<strong>Jason Pridie<\/strong>\u00a0from Minnesota with a waiver claim and designated pitcher\u00a0<strong>Jack Egbert<\/strong>\u00a0for assignment. Egbert joined the Mets roster late last season when they claimed him off waivers from the White Sox, fulfilling the destiny of all baseball players on the downside of their careers from the tri-state area.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Pridie, a potential challenger for innings in center field, is in and not yet assigned a number.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/35.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/>The Mets were hardly done, it turned out, signing former Met\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/jacobs-mike\">Mike Jacobs<\/a>\u00a0to a minor league deal and a chance to pressure incumbent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/murphy-dan\">Daniel Murphy<\/a>\u00a0at first base. There&#8217;s been some speculation that Jacobs would take his old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/27\">No. 27<\/a>\u00a0and leave\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/figueroa-nelson\">Nelson Figueroa<\/a>\u00a0to search for a new uni, but I doubt that comes to pass. Jacobs hasn&#8217;t really earned any equity in 27 and I think he&#8217;s a longshot to be anything more than a Buffalo Soldier this year, as attractive as ability to punish mistakes by righthanded pitchers is. He could really help his cause by taking up catching again, though. My guess is he takes Egbert&#8217;s 35.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/21.gif\" width=\"41\" height=\"48\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/>Also new to the NRIs is Tokyo Giants lefty\u00a0<strong>Hisanori Takahashi<\/strong>\u00a0(no relation to Ken as far as I know). This Takahashi could land in the vacant\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/21\">No. 21<\/a>, that was his jersey back East. Ex-Rays catcher\u00a0<strong>Shawn Riggans<\/strong>, like Jacobs a shaky defensive player with power, accepted an invite and looks to me destined for 73 or 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are hitting the leftovers like the day after Thanksgiving. Only hours after posting the numerical roster below, one number,\u00a035, came available again when the Mets claimed outfielder\u00a0Jason Pridie\u00a0from Minnesota with a waiver claim and designated pitcher\u00a0Jack Egbert\u00a0for assignment. Egbert joined the Mets roster late last season when they claimed him off waivers from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Mets&#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":[472,471,142],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hisanori-takahashi","tag-jason-pridie","tag-mike-jacobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}