{"id":1708,"date":"2011-07-11T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2013-12-14T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:05:07","slug":"not-half-bad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Not Half Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So here we are at the All-Star Break and I think we’d all agree that getting here with a prayer of contending for the playoffs without\u00a0Ike Davis,\u00a0David Wright,\u00a0Johan Santana, and with\u00a0Jason Bay\u00a0having the kind of year he’s having is a kind of small miracle and for that\u00a0Terry Collins\u00a0has our gratitude and this team has my admiration. But let’s not kid ourselves: Only a very hot start to the second half is going to make a difference if and when the calvary returns. Sandy Alderson would be a fool not to at least entertain offers for our guys big and small in the meantime and pull the trigger if the returns blow him away. Why not? At any rate, I’m finding it difficult to imagine that the cheap, useful guys (Capuano, Isringhausen, Hairston, Paulino) stick around and I hope we can get out from under the\u00a0Frankie Rodriguez\u00a0deal at some point.<\/p>\n

In the meantime you haven’t heard a whole lot from me in part because June was an especially light month on the transaction wire for the Mets. How light? Well, according to my roster expert Jason, there were no Met debuts in the month of June at all. Excluding Octobers and the strike-shortened August 1994, it’s only the third month since August of 1993 there have been no Met debuts and the first time since June of 2007 that no new Met arrived.<\/p>\n

We are checking in to note the recent return of\u00a0Nick Evans\u00a0and salute the poor kid both for his home run the other night and his roachlike ability to remain an option — but never the first one — for the Mets for four straight years now. In each of the last four seasons Evans had at least two separate stints with the team which has got to be approaching a record, thanks in part to twice escaping a claim by other clubs when exposed to waivers this year and subsequently electing to remain with the organization as opposed to trying his luck elsewhere. If he’s not a perfect Met\u00a0No. 6\u00a0nobody is. Cheers, Nick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here we are at the All-Star Break and I think we’d all agree that getting here with a prayer of contending for the playoffs without\u00a0Ike Davis,\u00a0David Wright,\u00a0Johan Santana, and with\u00a0Jason Bay\u00a0having the kind of year he’s having is a kind of small miracle and for that\u00a0Terry Collins\u00a0has our gratitude and this team has my … Continue reading “Not Half Bad”<\/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":[439],"tags":[364,511],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shams","tag-nick-evans","tag-terry-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}