{"id":2409,"date":"2015-08-05T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2015-08-05T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:22:28","slug":"standing-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Standing O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/44.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/44.gif\" alt=\"44\" width=\"60\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Newly arriving reliever\u00a0Eric O&#8217;Flaherty is reportedly suiting up in No. 44 and as my pal Greg says, let&#8217;s hope he&#8217;s tougher on lefties than his predecessor in that jersey, the late John Mayberry Jr.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Flaherty, who was acquired last night for a Player To Be Named Later, the Mets designated Alex Torres and his gigantic hat for assignment, a move freeing up No. 54 for the next guy who wants it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/35.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/35.gif\" alt=\"35\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>In the meantime, keep your eye on the Mets&#8217; starting rotation, which is expected at this time to slot in a 6th starter next time around. Speculation in the radio booth last night said it could be minor league teammates Dillon Gee and Logan Verrett competing for that &#8212; and next issue of No. 35. I&#8217;d guess at this point that Gee has the inside the inside track to the start, while Verrett, as a member of the 40-man roister, has a rightful claim on 35. But still it would weird to see Gee wearing 54. Baseball&#8217;s a funny game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly arriving reliever\u00a0Eric O&#8217;Flaherty is reportedly suiting up in No. 44 and as my pal Greg says, let&#8217;s hope he&#8217;s tougher on lefties than his predecessor in that jersey, the late John Mayberry Jr. To make room for Flaherty, who was acquired last night for a Player To Be Named Later, the Mets designated Alex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Standing O&#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":[411],"tags":[681,508,701,702],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","tag-alex-torres","tag-dillon-gee","tag-eric-oflaherty","tag-logan-verrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","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=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}