{"id":1833,"date":"2012-05-31T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2013-12-18T04:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:29:52","slug":"elvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Elvin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen\u00a0<strong>Elvin Ramirez<\/strong>\u00a0in a Mets uniform so don&#8217;t have any idea what number he&#8217;ll turn up in when he arrives Friday. He&#8217;d been with the Mets organization since he was a teenager, but only began to enter the radar screen when he was selected in the Rule 5 draft by the Nationals, only to miss the year they were required to keep him with a shoulder injury. He was returned to the Mets this year, and he&#8217;s been kicking ass in Buffalo, so he will get the call, likely at the expense of\u00a0Chris Schwinden\u00a0(again). Ramirez was wearing\u00a0No. 36\u00a0in Buffalo, which happens to be available on the Mets now. Nos. 20, 22, 38, 45, 51 and 58 are also vacant possibilities. So I guess I do have an idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0My idea is wrong again. Mets.com roster lists Ramirez in\u00a0No. 62. I think we have to consider the 60s are no longer &#8220;unusual&#8221; for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Thole\u00a0is also en route back, which ought to help a lot given we&#8217;ve somehow continued contending despite three weeks of\u00a0Mike Nickeas\u00a0and\u00a0Rob Johnson, one of whom will likely get cut to make room for him. I don&#8217;t much like Johnson&#8217;s defense nor Nickeas&#8217; offense, and each the other.<\/p>\n<p>Jennry Mejia\u00a0(32);\u00a0Pedro Beato\u00a0(27) and\u00a0Chris Young\u00a0(55 in his last go-round) are also on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen\u00a0Elvin Ramirez\u00a0in a Mets uniform so don&#8217;t have any idea what number he&#8217;ll turn up in when he arrives Friday. He&#8217;d been with the Mets organization since he was a teenager, but only began to enter the radar screen when he was selected in the Rule 5 draft by the Nationals, only to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elvin!&#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":[597,556,584],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elvin-ramirez","tag-mike-nickeas","tag-rob-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}