{"id":1427,"date":"2010-06-07T02:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2013-12-11T02:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:38:57","slug":"welcome-rookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Rookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/Fisher64.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"367\" \/>Congratulations to\u00a0<strong>Matt Harvey,<\/strong>\u00a0the Mets&#8217; first pick and seventh overall, in this year&#8217;s amateur draft. Photos from his University of North Carolina career show Harvey wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 43<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be some time before Harvey arrives, but hopefully not as much as\u00a0<strong>Jesus Feliciano<\/strong>\u00a0has waited. The Buffalo outfielder, who just turned 31 and has logged some 1,300 minor league games and nearly 5,000 plate appearances, was recalled to take the slot temporarily occupied by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/santos-omir\">Omir Santos<\/a>. No word yet on his uni number, although reader\u00a0<strong>Dave Mackey<\/strong>\u00a0points out Feliciano was wearing 23 in Buffalo (currently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/carter-chris\">Chris Carter<\/a>&#8216;s uni here). Dave points out that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/27\">27\u00a0<\/a>is free but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the Mets briskly re-issue the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/19\">19<\/a>\u00a0last belonging to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/matthews-gary\">Gary Matthews Jr.<\/a>\u00a0as a means of instant palate-cleansing. We will update!<br \/>\nThe accompanying photo is a wire photo of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/fisher-jack\">Jack Fisher<\/a>, beneficiary of the 19 runs the Mets scored in May of 1964 to beat the Cubs, referred to below in the first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/meet-dicks-part-1\">Meet the Dicks<\/a>\u00a0post. A copy was sent along by reader\u00a0<strong>Paul C<\/strong>. The caption, difficult to read in this shrunken size reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHICAGO &#8212; With the New York Mets hitting like champions here 5\/26 against the Cubs, and setting a new team record for hits and runs, Jack Fisher, shown here in dressing room, coasted and finished the game for the first time in 17 starts, eight of them this year, with his second win against three defeats. The last place Mets blasted 23 hits off six Cub hurlers for a 19-1 triumph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Matt Harvey,\u00a0the Mets&#8217; first pick and seventh overall, in this year&#8217;s amateur draft. Photos from his University of North Carolina career show Harvey wearing\u00a0No. 43. It will be some time before Harvey arrives, but hopefully not as much as\u00a0Jesus Feliciano\u00a0has waited. The Buffalo outfielder, who just turned 31 and has logged some 1,300 minor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome Rookies&#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":[494,493,492],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jack-fisher","tag-jesus-feliciano","tag-matt-harvey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}