{"id":1780,"date":"2012-02-07T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T03:58:08","slug":"mets-by-the-numbers-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Mets by the Numbers, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"500\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Number<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Player, pos (*-NRI)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Available for Tejada if he switches?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Justin Turner, inf<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Revealed on Twitter he was born at 2:22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Josh Satin, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Mike Nickeas, C<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Switches from 13 to accommodate Ronny Cedeno<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0David Wright, 3B<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Omar Quintanilla*, inf<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Wore 6 previously with Colorado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Treading carefully with Reyes&#8217; old number<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Maybe this is the year they honor Carter?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Was Ronny Paulino<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Terry Collins, mgr<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ruben Tejada, inf<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Could he switch (1, 9) for coach Tim Teufel?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Scott Hairston, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ronny Cedeno, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0retired (Gil Hodges)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Val Pascucci*, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Rob Johnson*, C<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Would be 2 years straight, something&#8217;s up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Just saying: Hard to honor Carter, Hernandez and not Straw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Daniel Hererra*, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Adam Loewen*, of<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ike Davis (29) has asked about acquiring 20 previously<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Lucas Duda, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Was Willie Harris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Mike Baxter*, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Limbo for Willie Mays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Was Chin-lung Hu.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Was Fernando Martinez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Pedro Beato, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Daniel Murphy, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ike Davis, 1B<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Josh Thole, C<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>31<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Limbo for Mike Piazza (and John Franco, kind of)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Jenrry Meija<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Remember him?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Vinny Rottino*, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>34<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Mike Pelfrey, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Dillon Gee, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>36<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Chuck James*, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>37<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0retired (Casey Stengel)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Garrett Olson*, rp<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Was Capuano<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>39<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Bobby Parnell, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>40<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Tim Byrdak, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>41<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0retired (Tom Seaver)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0retired-MLB (Jackie Robinson)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>43<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0R.A. Dickey<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>44<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Jason Bay<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0He should really change this<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>45<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Was Isringhausen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>46<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Manny Acosta, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>47<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Miguel Batista, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>48<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Frank Francisco, rp<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Would be first closer in 48 since Randy Myers (or Heilman)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>49<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Jon Niese, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0&#8220;belongs to the fans&#8221; in 50th anniversary season<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>51<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>52<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ramon Ramirez, rp<\/td>\n<td>Mets roster also lists hitting coach Dave Hudgens in 52 (his 2011 uni). Ramirez was 52 for Giants last year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>53<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Jeremy Heffner, rp<\/td>\n<td>Mets roster also lists bullpen catcher Eric Langill in 53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>54<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Dave Racianello, bullpen coach<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>55<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Likely a coach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>56<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Andres Torres, of<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Same number he wore with Giants last year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>57<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Johan Santana, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>58<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Fernando Cabrera*, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>59<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Dan Warthen, pitching coach<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>60<\/td>\n<td>Jon Rauch, rp<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Same number with Diamondbacks, Twins last year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>61<\/td>\n<td>Jordanny Valdespin, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>Lucas May, C<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>63<\/td>\n<td>Chris Schwinden, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>64<\/td>\n<td>Josh Stinson, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>65<\/td>\n<td>Zach Lutz, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>66<\/td>\n<td>Armando Rodriguez, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>67<\/td>\n<td>Cesar Puello, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>68<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Matt den Decker*, of<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Remarked on Twitter he prefers 17 (his college number)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>69<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<td>Matt Harvey*, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>71<\/td>\n<td>Wilmer Flores, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>72<\/td>\n<td>Kirk Niewenhuis, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>73<\/td>\n<td>Robert Carson, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>74<\/td>\n<td>Reese Havens, inf<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>75<\/td>\n<td>Juerys Familia, sp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>76<\/td>\n<td>Juan Lagares, of<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>77<\/td>\n<td>DJ Carrasco, rp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>78+<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0vacant<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the current numerical roster looks like, see the notes column for further info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number Player, pos (*-NRI) Notes 1 Vacant \u00a0Available for Tejada if he switches? 2 Justin Turner, inf \u00a0Revealed on Twitter he was born at 2:22 3 Josh Satin, inf 4 Mike Nickeas, C \u00a0Switches from 13 to accommodate Ronny Cedeno 5 \u00a0David Wright, 3B 6 Omar Quintanilla*, inf \u00a0Wore 6 previously with Colorado 7 \u00a0vacant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mets by the Numbers, 2012&#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":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}