{"id":1512,"date":"2010-12-13T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T12:54:50","slug":"flying-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Flying Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets on Monday named a pack of coaches to accompany new manager\u00a0<strong>Terry Collins<\/strong>, including newcomers\u00a0<strong>Jon Debus<\/strong>\u00a0(bullpen coach);\u00a0<strong>Ken Oberkfell\u00a0<\/strong>(bench coach) and\u00a0<strong>Dave Hudgens<\/strong>\u00a0(hitting coach) and a returnee, first-base coach\u00a0Mookie Wilson. They join returning third-base coach\u00a0Chip Hale\u00a0and pitching coach\u00a0Dan Warthen. Do any of these men speak Spanish?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/oberkfell.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"264\" \/>Uniform numbers have yet to be assigned to these guys but let&#8217;s start with the obvious: If the Mets can manage to get rid of\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0then No. 1 would be available for Mookie. The Mookster wore\u00a0No. 51\u00a0as a coach in 1997 before No. 1 became available to him, and 51 most recently belonged to Mook&#8217;s cross-diamond counterpart, Chip Hale. So there&#8217;s some drama whatever happens.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by the possibility of Ken Oberkfell donning\u00a0No. 0, as he did when I snapped the above photo a few spring trainings ago. The idea of his being a foil and aide-de-camp for Collins wearing\u00a0No. 10\u00a0makes sense, and if Mookie gets No. 1, well that&#8217;s even better. I have no idea and no real opinion on what numbers Hudgens and Debus show up in but it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if they show up in\u00a052\u00a0and\u00a053\u00a0like Met coaches often do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets on Monday named a pack of coaches to accompany new manager\u00a0Terry Collins, including newcomers\u00a0Jon Debus\u00a0(bullpen coach);\u00a0Ken Oberkfell\u00a0(bench coach) and\u00a0Dave Hudgens\u00a0(hitting coach) and a returnee, first-base coach\u00a0Mookie Wilson. They join returning third-base coach\u00a0Chip Hale\u00a0and pitching coach\u00a0Dan Warthen. Do any of these men speak Spanish? Uniform numbers have yet to be assigned to these guys &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flying Coach&#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":[448,520,519,347,511],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chip-hale","tag-dan-warthen","tag-dave-hudgens","tag-ken-oberkfell","tag-terry-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}