{"id":2118,"date":"2014-10-01T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:26:44","slug":"observing-a-lot-just-by-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Observing A Lot Just By Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/70.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/70.gif\" alt=\"70\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>So I was away in Europe the last week of the season and so completely missed the surprise re-emergence of good old No. 70, Wilfredo Tovar. I also missed the decisive sweep of the Braves that helped us to not only spoil whatever playoff hopes they had left to but catch them in the standings, and Lucas Duda&#8217;s heroic capture of the 30-home run mark, and Bobby Abreu&#8217;s feel-good retirement, and Sandy Alderson&#8217;s new contract. On the positive side,\u00a0I missed all the incessant Jeter hype.<\/p>\n<p>I further forgot to investigate the suggestion below that at least while David Wright remained active the Mets were running\u00a0Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 out there on a regular basis, maybe\u00a0for the first time ever. I didn&#8217;t note that the best career ERA ever recorded by a No. 48 now belongs to Jacob deGrom, a deserving Rookie of the Year candidate.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the\u00a0message of this season might be, It Wasn&#8217;t All Bad If You Were Actually Paying Attention. Sure the next step will require a club that makes a lot\u00a0fewer execution\u00a0errors than this\u00a0one\u00a0did, while scoring a bunch more runs, but its not unrealistic to expect a few good decisions this winter and the continued evolution of the emerging core could accomplish that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/28.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/28.gif\" alt=\"28\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Nobody asked me, but my guess is that we&#8217;ve seen the last of both Dillon Gee and Daniel Murphy. Gee, who had a poor year and a\u00a0lengthy injury this season,\u00a0probably doesn&#8217;t have enough talent to fit into the staff next season. Everyone loves Murphy, but given his rising price and the fact that we&#8217;ve got some\u00a0Flores and then Herrera waiting, it only makes sense to move on. Perhaps he goes in that big trade for that \u00a0outfielder and\/or shortstop and\/or leadoff hitter this club needs. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was away in Europe the last week of the season and so completely missed the surprise re-emergence of good old No. 70, Wilfredo Tovar. I also missed the decisive sweep of the Braves that helped us to not only spoil whatever playoff hopes they had left to but catch them in the standings, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Observing A Lot Just By Watching&#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":[439,1],"tags":[379,508],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shams","category-uncategorized","tag-daniel-murphy","tag-dillon-gee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}