{"id":1882,"date":"2013-02-08T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:53:56","slug":"prospecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"Prospecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/72.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/72.gif\" alt=\"72\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Some discussion in the post below raised the practice of dressing young prospects at camp. I was certainly expecting to see Zack Wheeler wearing his preferred 45 but was pleased to see the Mets haven&#8217;t granted him that priviledge quite yet. As Gogred points out, Dwight Gooden wore 64 as a spring training invite in 1984 (and again many springs later in an atempt to recapture the feeling. At this time in 2004, David Wright was rocking No. 72 &#8212; although Jose Reyes wore 7 during 2003&#8217;s spring training. Last year, Matt Harvey was 70 and Kirk Nieuwenhuis was 72. It&#8217;s believed that Travis D&#8217;Arnaud could be assigned his preferred 15 (I incorrectly said 16, below) but there&#8217;s something to be said for reminding the youngsters to have some humility.<\/p>\n<p>We should have the first sightings of unis and\/or rosters real soon. Keep an eye out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some discussion in the post below raised the practice of dressing young prospects at camp. I was certainly expecting to see Zack Wheeler wearing his preferred 45 but was pleased to see the Mets haven&#8217;t granted him that priviledge quite yet. As Gogred points out, Dwight Gooden wore 64 as a spring training invite in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prospecting&#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":[470,492,614],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kirk-nieuwenhuis","tag-matt-harvey","tag-zack-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","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=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}