{"id":194,"date":"2002-04-08T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2002-04-08T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=194"},"modified":"2013-11-29T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:14:29","slug":"trade-chain-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Trade Chain Extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Mets over the weekend traded\u00a0<strong>Bruce Chen 32<\/strong>\u00a0and AAA pitcher\u00a0<strong>Dickie Gonzalez 39\u00a0<\/strong>to Montreal for reliever\u00a0<strong>Scott Strickland.<\/strong>\u00a0Strickland takes the\u00a0<strong>No. 25<\/strong>\u00a0jersey most recently worn by\u00a0<strong>Gary Matthews Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0The deal extends the\u00a0<strong>Ed Hearn Trade Chain<\/strong>\u00a0another link.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A broken bone in his hand delivered\u00a0<strong>Mo &#8220;Family Feedbag&#8221; Vaughn 42\u00a0<\/strong>to the 15-DL. Taking his place is deserving perennial outfield candidate\u00a0<strong>Timo Perez,<\/strong>\u00a0who&#8217;ll be in Chicago this week wearing<strong>No. 6.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\">On\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wednesday night, the Mets traded backup outfielder\u00a0<strong>Gary Matthews Jr. 25<\/strong>\u00a0to the Orioles and replaced him on the roster with fotrmer Dodgers and White Sox outfielder,\u00a0<strong>McKay Christensen<\/strong>. Christesen is in uniform wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 23<\/strong>. Sarge Jr. bows out of Met-town after 1 at-bat and 1 pinch-running experience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets over the weekend traded\u00a0Bruce Chen 32\u00a0and AAA pitcher\u00a0Dickie Gonzalez 39\u00a0to Montreal for reliever\u00a0Scott Strickland.\u00a0Strickland takes the\u00a0No. 25\u00a0jersey most recently worn by\u00a0Gary Matthews Jr.\u00a0The deal extends the\u00a0Ed Hearn Trade Chain\u00a0another link. &nbsp; &nbsp; A broken bone in his hand delivered\u00a0Mo &#8220;Family Feedbag&#8221; Vaughn 42\u00a0to the 15-DL. Taking his place is deserving perennial outfield candidate\u00a0Timo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trade Chain Extended&#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":[32,67,66,65,63,14,64],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-chen","tag-gary-mattews-jr","tag-mckay-christensen","tag-mo-vaughn","tag-scott-strickland","tag-timo-perez","tag-trade-chain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}