{"id":1524,"date":"2011-01-26T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2013-12-14T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T13:23:24","slug":"hus-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"Hu&#8217;s the Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting update passed along by reader\u00a0<strong>Nick\u00a0<\/strong>in the comments for the post below:\u00a0<strong>Chin-Lung Hu<\/strong>\u00a0was assigned\u00a0No. 17\u00a0yesterday, but is listed in\u00a0No. 25\u00a0today. In between, there was some of the typical hand-wringing that accompanies every issue of No. 17 to the Koos, Limas, Lloyds and Appiers of the world, while, by contrast, No. 8 has been mothballed since 2002 in deference to\u00a0Gary Carter&#8217;s enshrinement in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>Could this be a signal that\u00a0<strong>Kevin Kierst<\/strong>, the Mets&#8217; new equipment manager, will take a different route than his disgraced predecessor,<strong>Charlie Samuels<\/strong>? It couldn&#8217;t hurt if it was.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve never been a strong advocate of retiring numbers (I think the Mets&#8217; cautious stance on this issue is more or less on the mark) I&#8217;d be against retiring 8 while also not retiring 17, particularly as Hernandez&#8217; stature among fans has grown as his broadcasting career has flourished while Carter&#8217;s star dimmed amid the feeling that he was a plotting gloryhound with an appetite for a managerial coup. The issue then of course is what to do with 16 and 18, which is why the less-is-more approach is something I&#8217;ve always been behind.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the wanton reissuing of 17 &#8212; aside from conforming to Met tradition before Hernandez came along &#8212; is wrong as well. I&#8217;ve long advocated that the Mets save those numbers that might otherwise be retired and issue them to players who would do them proud. I&#8217;d put\u00a0Josh Thole\u00a0in 8 and\u00a0Ike Davis\u00a0in 17 tomorrow. Hu &#8212; who like\u00a0Kelvin Torve\u00a0assuredly wants no part in a numerical controversy &#8212; is scheduled to meet the press tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Arroyo, by the way, was removed from the list of coaches today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting update passed along by reader\u00a0Nick\u00a0in the comments for the post below:\u00a0Chin-Lung Hu\u00a0was assigned\u00a0No. 17\u00a0yesterday, but is listed in\u00a0No. 25\u00a0today. In between, there was some of the typical hand-wringing that accompanies every issue of No. 17 to the Koos, Limas, Lloyds and Appiers of the world, while, by contrast, No. 8 has been mothballed since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hu&#8217;s the Boss&#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":[524,101,329,531],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chin-lung-hu","tag-gary-carter","tag-keith-hernandez","tag-kevin-kierst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","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=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}