{"id":1459,"date":"2010-07-24T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:32:06","slug":"whitey-bay-and-fernando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Whitey, Bay and Fernando"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fell asleep halfway through but for the first time in weeks the Mets didn’t, earning a win behind some great defensive plays and a clutch hit by of all people,\u00a0Jason Bay<\/a>. And just like that, they look prepared to win a few games again (as long as they can resist bunting as much as they did last night).
\nI was kind of saddened to hear the team designated\u00a0Fernando Nieve<\/a>\u00a0for assignment, even though I’m sure he’ll land safely in Buffalo. But if you need an example of what’s wrong with how\u00a0Jerry Manuel<\/a>\u00a0uses the bullpen, here’s your guy. Forced onto the team as a result of having no minor-league options, Nieve was used in the Mets’ first four games, six of their first eight, and 9 of their first 13, a completely unsustainable pace. In all he made 24 appearances with one or no days rest. He was used in short relief and long relief, in close games winning, blowouts losing, and even got a start. Predictably, his effectiveness wobbled under the workload and he went from a 100-game pace to a forgotten man in an instant, which seems a waste of a young guy with a good repertoire if some control issues.\u00a0Manny Acosta\u00a0was recalled from Buffalo to take his place and outfitted in the same\u00a0No. 36\u00a0he wore earlier this year.
\nFormer Met coach and director of player development,\u00a0Casey Stengel\u00a0disciple, and Cardinal-managing nemesis\u00a0Whitey Herzog\u00a0will be enshrined in Cooperstown this weekend. Richard Sandomir of the\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/em>has a\u00a0nice article today<\/a>\u00a0focusing on Herzog’s Mets career, quoting Keith Hernandez, Ralph Kiner … and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I fell asleep halfway through but for the first time in weeks the Mets didn’t, earning a win behind some great defensive plays and a clutch hit by of all people,\u00a0Jason Bay. And just like that, they look prepared to win a few games again (as long as they can resist bunting as much as … Continue reading “Whitey, Bay and Fernando”<\/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":[308,425,446,484,502],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-casey-stengel","tag-fernando-nieve","tag-jason-bay","tag-manny-acosta","tag-whitey-herzog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}