{"id":1397,"date":"2010-04-21T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2013-12-11T01:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T01:07:35","slug":"handy-manny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Handy Manny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/igarashi-ryota\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/36.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-119\" alt=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/36.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Ryota Igarashi<\/a>\u00a0went onto the disabled list today with injuries sustained when attacked by a Koyie Hill bunt last night, and the Mets summoned former Brave and spring training waiver claim\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/acosta-manny\">Manny Acosta<\/a>\u00a0to take his place. Reports said Acosta will be suited up in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/36\">No. 36<\/a>, a number worn last year by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/takahashi-ken\">Ken Takahashi<\/a>\u00a0and not by a Met of significance since, uh,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/mcmichael-greg\">Greg McMichael<\/a>\u00a0or, perhaps,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/lynch-ed\">Ed Lynch<\/a>. I guess maybe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/roberts-greg\">Grant Roberts<\/a>\u00a0would count if only for the hype and front-page bong hits.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta, you might remember, is one 10,000 men who&#8217;ve been the closer for the Atlanta Braves during the Bobby Cox Era and should, but probably won&#8217;t, serve as a reminder to the Mets that they&#8217;re still trying way too hard to capture this elusive 8th-inning thunder. If they weren&#8217;t, Igarashi might never have needed to take the mound last night in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryota Igarashi\u00a0went onto the disabled list today with injuries sustained when attacked by a Koyie Hill bunt last night, and the Mets summoned former Brave and spring training waiver claim\u00a0Manny Acosta\u00a0to take his place. Reports said Acosta will be suited up in\u00a0No. 36, a number worn last year by\u00a0Ken Takahashi\u00a0and not by a Met of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handy Manny&#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":[484,451],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-manny-acosta","tag-ryota-igarashi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}