{"id":1803,"date":"2012-04-24T02:42:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:09:33","slug":"mets-do-the-buffalo-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"Mets Do the Buffalo Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/19.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/19.gif\" alt=\"19\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>What was looking like a happy and uneventful Mets season has suddently become anything but. A few poor starts and a little better competition has begun to expose big cracks in the Mets&#8217; health and holes in their game. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a Met look as lost at the plate as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/davis-ike\">Ike Davis\u00a0<\/a>does these days since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/burnitz-jeromy\">Jeromy Burnitz<\/a>\u00a0in 2002. We&#8217;re really piling up the whiffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/53.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/53.gif\" alt=\"53\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>As noted below, a few disabled-list assignments have brought some new players to the team. Monday&#8217;s doubleheader featured the Mets debut of\u00a0Jeremy Heffner, who took the roster slot of disabled infielder\u00a0Ronny Cedeno. Heffner, who wore\u00a0No. 53\u00a0&#8212; the first since manager\u00a0Jerry Manuel\u00a0in 2010 &#8212; was farmed out again after the game when\u00a0Jordanny Valdespin\u00a0was activated. Valdespin, a hard-hitting prospect whom the Mets hope to use in a utility role, was assigned\u00a0No. 1\u00a0(I&#8217;d have guessed 22, wrongly again). Today we got news that both\u00a0Jason Bay\u00a0and\u00a0Mike Pelfrey\u00a0were added to the disabled list. Bay&#8217;s spot on the roster will be taken over by\u00a0Zach Lutz, a third baseman who can hit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/1.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/>The Mets have assigned Lutz\u00a0No. 19, which if you&#8217;re\u00a0Danny Herrera\u00a0can&#8217;t be encouraging. The little lefty we received for\u00a0Francisco Rodriguez\u00a0last season is already off the 40 and out for the year with arm trouble. It&#8217;s unlikey we see him again. Pelfrey&#8217;s spot &#8212; for the moment &#8212; will be occupied by lefty reliever\u00a0Robert Carson, who&#8217;s been assigned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/73\">No. 73<\/a>, at least according to the Mets roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was looking like a happy and uneventful Mets season has suddently become anything but. A few poor starts and a little better competition has begun to expose big cracks in the Mets&#8217; health and holes in their game. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a Met look as lost at the plate as\u00a0Ike Davis\u00a0does these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mets Do the Buffalo Shuffle&#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":[446,578,589,241,577,590],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jason-bay","tag-jeremy-hefner","tag-jordany-valdespin","tag-mike-pelfrey","tag-ronny-cedeno","tag-zach-lutz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","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=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}