{"id":1813,"date":"2012-05-07T03:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:03:26","slug":"vinny-for-schwinny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Vinny for Schwinny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"33\"<\/a>A few Met changes to get caught up on that I missed over the weekend: First, there was the return of punching-bag starter\u00a0Chris Schwinden\u00a0to AAA after two miserable starts as Mike Pelfrey’s replacement. What makes the Mets think\u00a0Miguel Batista\u00a0represents much of an upgrade remains a bit of a mystery, as Batista hasn’t had much more than a good inning or two since spring training and is 41 years old, but that’s the price the Mets are paying for cutting every corner on depth as a means to service the Wilpon’s debt.<\/p>\n

In Schwinden’s place the Mets recalled versatile reserve\u00a0Vinny Rottino, who retains the No. 33 he rocked during spring training. The last Met to wear\u00a0No. 33\u00a0was reliever\u00a0Taylor Buchholz, who left the club last year battling depression (we know) but the 33 I can see Rottino resembling is Valentine era reserve\u00a0Mike Kinkade, who like Rottino was a right-handed bench bat who could catch in an emergency.<\/p>\n

Also this weekend, the Mets demoted\u00a0Jordany Valdespin\u00a0as reliever\u00a0D.J. Carrasco\u00a0returned from the disabled list. Valdespin struggled in limited plate appearances but his versatility could be an asset down the road. I’d consider Carrasco a possibility to take a starting role if this Batista thing doesn’t work out, and who really does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few Met changes to get caught up on that I missed over the weekend: First, there was the return of punching-bag starter\u00a0Chris Schwinden\u00a0to AAA after two miserable starts as Mike Pelfrey’s replacement. What makes the Mets think\u00a0Miguel Batista\u00a0represents much of an upgrade remains a bit of a mystery, as Batista hasn’t had much more … Continue reading “Vinny for Schwinny”<\/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":[561,518,589,558,592,525,585],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-schwinden","tag-dj-carrasco","tag-jordany-valdespin","tag-miguel-batista","tag-mike-kinkade","tag-taylor-buchholz","tag-vinny-rottino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}