{"id":1472,"date":"0201-08-23T03:00:21","date_gmt":"0201-08-23T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2013-12-14T03:07:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T03:07:28","slug":"handbags-and-gladrags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Handbags and Gladrags"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So I underestimated the Mets’ appetite for risk at this point and was mildly surprised to see they let\u00a0Rod Barajas<\/a>\u00a0go to the Dodgers on a waiver deal.\u00a0Andy Martino’s story<\/a>\u00a0in the Daily News this morning suggested the team interpreted this move as white flag waving: They must also be getting their news from the traditional sources which in my opinion have really struggled with the narrative for the 2010 Mets: Take for example Adam Rubin’shodgepodge of unrelated stories disguised as a trend<\/a>\u00a0piece on ESPN today, complete with the same tired headline we’ve been reading on these stories since the Alejando Pena Era (no other reason for the photo) and the lack of perspective to note that lots of teams (the Yankees, for example) wind up with a different bullpen than the one they set out to create, and its barely hurt either club a bit.<\/p>\n

Yawn.<\/p>\n

If you ask me, there’s been little mystery as to the Mets offensive struggles this year: Most has to do with the fact they rolled the dice on a third of the lineup off the bat (right field, catcher and first base) and knew going in that any offense second base had limited upside. That’s half an everyday lineup that might not turn out so well, and it didn’t: That’s not too mysterious. Really, the only real outliers have been\u00a0Angel Pagan<\/a>\u00a0on the upside and\u00a0Jason Bay<\/a>\u00a0on the downside. Barajas, who briefly led the Mets in home runs (and the\u00a0world\u00a0<\/em>in foul home runs) will be remembered for his crazy hot start but a pretty harsh return to career norms. His trade meant a recall for outfielder\u00a0Jesus Feliciano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I underestimated the Mets’ appetite for risk at this point and was mildly surprised to see they let\u00a0Rod Barajas\u00a0go to the Dodgers on a waiver deal.\u00a0Andy Martino’s story\u00a0in the Daily News this morning suggested the team interpreted this move as white flag waving: They must also be getting their news from the traditional sources … Continue reading “Handbags and Gladrags”<\/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":[274,473],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alejandro-pena","tag-rod-barajas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}