{"id":1852,"date":"2012-07-13T02:22:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:58:28","slug":"getting-high-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Getting High for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the answer to the Josh Edgin Mystery is\u00a066. He’d be the first Mets player ever to suit up in that number in a game, joining fellow number pioneer\u00a0Chris Schwinden\u00a0(63) among 2012 Mets.<\/p>\n

\"66\"<\/a>There’s no doubt new equipment manager Kevin Kierst is wild about the high numbers, his reign as equipment manager also saw 60s assignments to\u00a0Jon Rauch\u00a0(60),\u00a0Jack Egbert\u00a0(61),\u00a0Elvin Ramirez\u00a0(62) and\u00a0Josh Stinson\u00a0(64); and a 73 issued this year to\u00a0Robert Carson. These jerseys at one time were almost exclusively a spring-training thing, with the only exceptions being brief debut appearances of 61 (Jesse Orosco,\u00a0Mario Ramirez) and 62 (Hubie Brooks) in 1979 and 1980.<\/p>\n

The Mets then went more than 20 years without issuing a 60s jersey until\u00a0Jeff Duncan\u00a0came along in 2003.\u00a0Chan-Ho Park\u00a0and\u00a0Livan Hernandez\u00a0both later wore 61, but came to the Mets having worn that number elsewhere.\u00a0Scott Schoeneweis\u00a0broke 60’s cherry in 2007 but was also continuing a tradition. So perhaps then the spiritual grandfather of today’s common Met-relief-pitcher-in-the-60s is good old\u00a0Elmer Dessens, who debuted 64 in 2009.<\/p>\n

Kenny Rogers\u00a0in 1999 became the first player to wear a 70s jersey, reversing the digits on his customary 37 which was unavailable here.\u00a0Turk Wendell\u00a0was the first and still only 99.<\/p>\n

We have yet to see a 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, or 72, but there’s still time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the answer to the Josh Edgin Mystery is\u00a066. He’d be the first Mets player ever to suit up in that number in a game, joining fellow number pioneer\u00a0Chris Schwinden\u00a0(63) among 2012 Mets. There’s no doubt new equipment manager Kevin Kierst is wild about the high numbers, his reign as equipment manager also saw 60s … Continue reading “Getting High for the First Time”<\/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":[427,586],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elmer-dessens","tag-josh-edgin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}