{"id":2465,"date":"2015-12-22T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2015-12-22T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:10:34","slug":"make-way-for-team-unsexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Make Way for Team UnSexy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Busiest Mets Offseason Without Any Sex Appeal Ever\u00a0continued Tuesday when the Mets\u00a0reportedly reached a 1-year contract agreement with free agent outfielder <strong>Alejandro De Aza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/30.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/30.gif\" alt=\"30\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>The lefty swinging De Aza, already a veteran of 5 other organizations, is expected to platoon with incumbent center fielder Juan Lagares and was chosen above other prospective jobbers\u00a0like Will Venable. I&#8217;m not even going to guess what number De Aza is issued but will note that 19 is newly available upon\u00a0<strong>Johnny Monell<\/strong>&#8216;s release from the 40. He previously wore 7, 11, 30, 12, 31 and 45. Actually I&#8217;ll guess he takes 30 while <strong>Michael Conforto<\/strong>, as discussed below, takes 15.<\/p>\n<p>Being\u00a0one of those fans who tries hard to understand, if not rationalize, what the Mets tend to do and think we can say that De Aza is a cost-effective solution providing the same general &#8220;skill-set&#8221; of a Denard Span at a fraction of the cost or commitment and is less likely to miss half a season with a hip injury, and continues an overarching strategy to build on last year&#8217;s pennant winning club by minimizing the chances they are as debilitated by injury &#8212; rather, by\u00a0overcoming those injuries &#8212; as they were a year ago. That said you have to wonder whether the best strategy might have been instead to trade <strong>Curtis Granderson<\/strong> and take your chances re-upping <strong>Yoenis Cespedes<\/strong>, entering the\u00a0Jason Heyward fray or otherwise competing for the top talent.<\/p>\n<p>Those ships however have sailed. Ready or not, these are our guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Busiest Mets Offseason Without Any Sex Appeal Ever\u00a0continued Tuesday when the Mets\u00a0reportedly reached a 1-year contract agreement with free agent outfielder Alejandro De Aza. The lefty swinging De Aza, already a veteran of 5 other organizations, is expected to platoon with incumbent center fielder Juan Lagares and was chosen above other prospective jobbers\u00a0like Will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make Way for Team UnSexy&#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":[679,695,700],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","tag-johnny-monell","tag-michael-conforto","tag-yoenis-cespedes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}