{"id":2472,"date":"2016-01-10T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2016-01-10T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T16:21:15","slug":"grody-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Grody to the Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I anticipate it will still be a week or so before the Mets reveal updates to their roster and assigned uni numbers, but this morning I stumbled across what would be among\u00a0be the first such published updates in club history. The below clip (see the second item) was published in the M<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Milwaukee-Sentinel-022262.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Milwaukee-Sentinel-022262-274x300.png\" alt=\"Milwaukee Sentinel 022262\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Milwaukee-Sentinel-022262-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Milwaukee-Sentinel-022262.png 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 85vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>ilwaukee Sentinel on Feb. 22, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t help but think had this column published today it would be called &#8220;GRODY TO THE MAX&#8221; rather than the &#8220;THE SPORTS WHIRL&#8217;D.&#8221; Grody was a longtime columnist\u00a0at the Sentinel best known as a boxing writer.<\/p>\n<p>As for those Mets numbers, we&#8217;re anticipating issues to new 40-man residents Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Josh Smoker, Jeff Walters and Brandon Nimmo; minor league guys who&#8217;ve been invited to spring training like Ty Kelly, Stolmy Pimental and Jim Henderson; potential reassignments for guys like Darrell Ceciliani; new bench coach Dick Scott; and newly added players like Alejandro De Aza and Jerry Blevins (Neil Walker in 20 and Asdrubal Cabrera in 13 are the only sure things at this point).<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I anticipate it will still be a week or so before the Mets reveal updates to their roster and assigned uni numbers, but this morning I stumbled across what would be among\u00a0be the first such published updates in club history. The below clip (see the second item) was published in the Milwaukee Sentinel on Feb. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grody to the Max&#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":[411,626],"tags":[711,719,714,718,720,715,716,717,721,722],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","category-useless-milestones","tag-asdrubal-cabrera","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-gil-hodges","tag-jeff-walters","tag-jim-henderson","tag-josh-smoker","tag-robert-gsellman","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stolmy-pimental","tag-ty-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}