{"id":1794,"date":"2012-03-18T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T23:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:11:40","slug":"close-to-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Close to the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"54\"<\/a>Been meaning to write a few things about this Mets team but their play this Spring has all but beaten the enthusiasm from me. We knew going in that the lack of depth and fielding would be the death of this team, I just didn’t think it would be before March was out. The fact that the offense and the relief pitching have joined the above-mentioned atrocities in their pursuit of suck is also a concern. If the Mets are going to do anything this year, they’re going to have to score a bunch and relieve very well.\u00a0Mike Pelfrey\u00a0is on our side after all.<\/p>\n

Injuries to alleged keys to the season such as\u00a0Ruben Tejada,\u00a0David Wright\u00a0and\u00a0Tim Byrdak\u00a0have hardly helped matters — not to mention the fact that the owners go on trial this week trying to prove they were too stupid to have know Bernie Madoff was a fraud. That ought to be easy but the Mets will find a way to screw that up too.<\/p>\n

In the meantime it’s perhaps worth mentioning that the Mets have provided lefty longshot\u00a0Josh Edgin<\/strong>\u00a0with jersey\u00a0No. 54\u00a0— totally legit by the standards of this squad — after he first arrived in camp wearing\u00a0No. 87<\/strong>. The latter figure was the highest among campers at least according to the roster posted online. Edgin’s a stocky lefty with a strong track record — as long as you consider Class A a track — who looks like he might assume Byrdak’s role when the team goes North. That’d be something to get behind.<\/p>\n

Go, Edgie. Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been meaning to write a few things about this Mets team but their play this Spring has all but beaten the enthusiasm from me. We knew going in that the lack of depth and fielding would be the death of this team, I just didn’t think it would be before March was out. The fact … Continue reading “Close to the Edge”<\/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":[586,241],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-josh-edgin","tag-mike-pelfrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}