{"id":1757,"date":"2012-01-11T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:17:41","slug":"take-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Take a Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/12.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/12.gif\" alt=\"12\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>With the addition of new reserve shortstop\u00a0<strong>Ronny Cedeno<\/strong>\u00a0and returning pinch-hitter\u00a0Scott Hairston\u00a0&#8212; and the subtraction of bungled phenom\u00a0Fernando Martinez, who will try again with the Astros &#8212; the Mets say their 40-man roster is whole again and, they say, unlilkely to undergo any further changes before it all begins again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the weather making it as though like winter never came. The additions to the team were underwhelming enough and the finances bad enough that nobody bothered having a press event beyond conference calls or a caravan which is all well and good but denied us the introduction of new uni numbers until, I suppose, pitchers and catchers report. Following are guys on the 40 who are awaiting a number assignment:<\/p>\n<p>PITCHERS: Robert Carson, Juerys Familia, Frank Francisco, Jeremy Heffner, Ramon Ramirez, Jon Rauch<\/p>\n<p>INFIELDERS: Ronny Cedeno, Wilmer Flores, Reese Havens<\/p>\n<p>OUTFIELDERS: Juan Lagares, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Cesar Puello, Andres Torres<\/p>\n<p>Including the four non-roster invitees who already have number assignments (Miguel Batista, Daniel Hererra, Valentino Pascucci, Mike Baxter) the following numbers (up to 50) are available to issue: 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 31, 33, 38, 45, 48, 50.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 13 guys and 20 numbers if I counted right. If I include additional non-roster invitees (likely to be issued numbers in the 60s or above anyway) it&#8217;s 21 guys and 20 numbers. Who will wind up in which?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the addition of new reserve shortstop\u00a0Ronny Cedeno\u00a0and returning pinch-hitter\u00a0Scott Hairston\u00a0&#8212; and the subtraction of bungled phenom\u00a0Fernando Martinez, who will try again with the Astros &#8212; the Mets say their 40-man roster is whole again and, they say, unlilkely to undergo any further changes before it all begins again. It&#8217;s not just the weather making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1757\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take a Number&#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":[411],"tags":[350,577,526],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","tag-fernando-martinez","tag-ronny-cedeno","tag-scott-hairston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","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=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}