{"id":1466,"date":"2010-08-08T02:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2013-12-14T02:52:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T02:52:29","slug":"spoiling-the-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Spoiling the Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruben Tejada<\/a>\u00a0didn’t look ready to be an everyday player during the Mets’ initial slide into irrelevancy so I found it rather odd that he was the guy they called for when things got really desperate this week. Not that I disagreed with kicking\u00a0Alex Cora<\/a>\u00a0off the bus: For all he contributed prior to his injuries last year, he hasn’t been good for more than a year and certainly hadn’t earned the approaching second year vest in his overpriced contract, so a release was called for. Consider him, along with Castillo,\u00a0Jeff Francoeur<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Oliver Perez<\/a>\u00a0(and\u00a0Jason Bay<\/a>?), as what they’ll recall when Omar Minaya is gently kicked upstairs after the year is out. But, wasn’t\u00a0Justin Turner\u00a0<\/a>available?<\/p>\n

Meantime,\u00a0Jesus Feliciano<\/a>\u00a0was demoted and\u00a0Fernando Martinez<\/a>\u00a0returned. If Fartinez can take a few starts from Francouer … or\u00a0Carlos Beltran<\/a>\u00a0… or Bay … well, maybe that wouldn’t be a bad thing to get another look at, since whoever’s in charge nest year will have some big decisions to make in the outfield. Martinez is back in\u00a026\u00a0<\/a>and Tejada in\u00a011<\/a>, by the way.<\/p>\n

And while another radical slump from\u00a0David Wright<\/a>\u00a0sure isn’t helping things,\u00a0Jerry Manuel’s<\/a>\u00a0managing of this team remains woefully counterproductive, and, I think, contributes to that frightened offense. He’ll vamoose as well after this year ends and we now know how it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruben Tejada\u00a0didn’t look ready to be an everyday player during the Mets’ initial slide into irrelevancy so I found it rather odd that he was the guy they called for when things got really desperate this week. Not that I disagreed with kicking\u00a0Alex Cora\u00a0off the bus: For all he contributed prior to his injuries last … Continue reading “Spoiling the Ending”<\/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":[413,350,499,476],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alex-cora","tag-fernando-martinez","tag-justin-turner","tag-ruben-tejada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}