Abreu is notable for having worn the oddish No. 53 all those years with the Phillies. I can’t imagine the shelved Jeremy Hefner would mind loaning it to Bobby because I can’t imagine a scenario where their active careers overlap again.\u00a0Twenty-nine\u00a0is available too now but, no.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning. Quick note to catch up on the rapidly evolving and possibly improving 2014 Mets. Kyle Farnsworth, \u00a0whom I don’t like, has taken over closing duties from Jose Valverde, \u00a0whom I don’t\u00a0trust, but the question remains who’s next once Farnsworth has proven untrustworthy. Seems so far that Gonzalez Germen has the results and Jeurys … Continue reading “To Be Named Later”<\/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":[411,1],"tags":[640,445,578,635,634],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","category-uncategorized","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-ike-davis","tag-jeremy-hefner","tag-jose-valverde","tag-kyle-farnsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"29\"](\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/29.gif\")
<\/a>On the other hand, who plays first base every day does matter, \u00a0and I’m relieved to see they finally did something about that. I ran out of patience with Ike Davis a few years ago<\/a> and long since resigned myself to the fact that he was destined to go cheaply in a trade. There’s some buzz out there that the Player To Be Named is significant; \u00a0I’d guess potentially so, given that’s the best way to describe Ike too. So long, Ike. \u00a0Like Steve Trachsel you were a pretty good representative of No. 29 but it didn’t end well.<\/p>\n![\"53\"](\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/53.gif\")
<\/a>This morning we get the news that ancient chunky hit machine Bobby Abreu will arrive to take Ike ‘ place as lefthanded pinch hitter. I have to say I like having a “professional hitter” with no dreams of being a starter ever again to be hitting late-inning doubles for me, and\u00a0Abreu joins what looks to be a pretty solid bench.<\/p>\n