{"id":1372,"date":"2010-04-02T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2013-12-11T00:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:22:02","slug":"1372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like We Made It"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still having trouble believing that\u00a0Jenrry Mejia<\/strong>, along with\u00a0Ruben Tejada<\/strong>, apparently have made the Mets’ opening-day squad and along with the usual caution you should take with all 20-year-olds who’ve yet to play above Class AA, it should be exciting to see what these kids have to offer.<\/p>\n

I’m also interested to see what they’ll be wearing. Mejia as discussed below was outfitted in\u00a0No. 76<\/strong>\u00a0this spring and as outrageous as it’d be I’d be tempted to leave him in that jersey both as a reminder of his age and a symbol of his unique place within the Met family. Tejada has apparently won a job the old-fashioned way: He caught the ball better than his counterparts in a competition for a middle-infield job, as compromised as\u00a0Jose Reyes<\/a>‘s medical misadventaures made it. He hit pretty well too.<\/p>\n

Tejada was wearing\u00a0No. 79<\/strong>\u00a0this spring and will certainly have a new jersey by Monday.\u00a0No. 3<\/a>\u00a0was recently vacated by Chris Coste and makes perfect sense;\u00a010<\/a>\u00a0(issued to and taken from longshot\u00a0Andy Green<\/a>\u00a0for the second straight spring) would be another strong possibility.<\/p>\n

Other late cuts Friday included\u00a0Kiko Calero<\/strong>, whom I thought would have been a lock if only for his pedigree; hapless punching bag\u00a0Nelson Figueroa<\/a>;\u00a0Bobby Parnell<\/a>, who had less going for him than Meija a year ago when he turned in two solid months of setup relief; veteran\u00a0Elmer Dessens<\/a>; infielder\u00a0Russ Adams<\/strong>; and reserve hopeful\u00a0Chris Carter<\/strong>\u00a0who probably didn’t get a real fair shake at winning a job at first base. The winners along with Mejia and Tejada included utilityman\u00a0Frank Catalanotto<\/strong>\u00a0and one of either\u00a0Sean Green<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Raul Valdes<\/strong>. The latter came out of nowhere — he wore\u00a0No. 96<\/strong>, the highest in camp — to challenge for a lefty specialist role. We’ll try to keep you updated on what the Easter Bunny leaves these guys. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still having trouble believing that\u00a0Jenrry Mejia, along with\u00a0Ruben Tejada, apparently have made the Mets’ opening-day squad and along with the usual caution you should take with all 20-year-olds who’ve yet to play above Class AA, it should be exciting to see what these kids have to offer. I’m also interested to see what they’ll … Continue reading “Looks Like We Made It”<\/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":[474,479,476,409],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jenrry-mejia","tag-raul-valdes","tag-ruben-tejada","tag-sean-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}