{"id":1451,"date":"2010-07-16T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:33:18","slug":"1451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Turner Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.gif\" alt=\"2\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>For the first time in 15 years, the Mets have a player wearing\u00a0No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The team on Friday recalled infielder\u00a0Justin Turner\u00a0from Class AAA Buffalo and assigned him uni No. 2: A shirt that belonged to coaches\u00a0Sandy Alomar\u00a0and\u00a0Gary Pettis, and\u00a0manager\u00a0Bobby Valentine, since\u00a01995, when\u00a0Damon Buford\u00a0wore No. 2. The Mets were close to another issue of No. 2 this spring until\u00a0Frank Catalanotto\u00a0switched to\u00a0No. 27\u00a0at the dawn of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Justin Turner anyway? According to the Internet, he&#8217;s a righthanded-hitting middle infielder who, like Damon Buford, came to the Mets via Baltimore (We recalled the\u00a0Damon Buford Story here\u00a0earlier this year). The Mets claimed Turner on waivers in May of this year when the Orioles designated him for assignment while activating\u00a0<strong>Brian Roberts<\/strong>. Turner, who had a cup of coffee with O&#8217;s last September wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 83<\/strong>\u00a0(wow!), arrived in Baltimore via Cincinnati in the<strong>Ramon Hernandez<\/strong>\u00a0trade. He was a 7th round draft selection of the Reds in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>As a second baseman in Buffalo, Turner was hitting .297\/.342\/.400 in 193 plate appearances. He was activated in favor of\u00a0Nick Evans, who returns to AA Binghamton, in part because he provides better middle-infield depth with\u00a0Jose Reyes\u00a0unavailable for an undetermined period of time, and in part because Evans wears\u00a0No. 6\u00a0and that&#8217;s what happens to those guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 15 years, the Mets have a player wearing\u00a0No. 2. The team on Friday recalled infielder\u00a0Justin Turner\u00a0from Class AAA Buffalo and assigned him uni No. 2: A shirt that belonged to coaches\u00a0Sandy Alomar\u00a0and\u00a0Gary Pettis, and\u00a0manager\u00a0Bobby Valentine, since\u00a01995, when\u00a0Damon Buford\u00a0wore No. 2. The Mets were close to another issue of No. 2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turner Broadcasting&#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":[478,499,364],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-damon-buford","tag-justin-turner","tag-nick-evans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}