{"id":2476,"date":"2016-01-20T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T04:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2016-01-20T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T04:16:26","slug":"bastardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Bastardly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/59.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/59.gif\" alt=\"59\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>The Mets have called Dan Warthen their pitching coach\u00a0since the famous Willie Randolph firing in June of 2008, and as such, he predates every man in uniform except for David Wright.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s quietly becoming a legend.<\/p>\n<p>Yet his No. 59 could be under siege now that reports are trickling out that\u00a0the Mets have come to an agreement with lefthanded reliever Antonio Bastardo, a 59 both in Pittsburgh and in Philadelphia. I learned long before Warthen got here not to expect a whole lot from free-agent relievers while also believing the more the merrier. A Mets team with Bastardo is a little more formidable than one without him, so it gets my approval.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rooting for Warthen to stay in 59 but wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he gives it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have called Dan Warthen their pitching coach\u00a0since the famous Willie Randolph firing in June of 2008, and as such, he predates every man in uniform except for David Wright. He&#8217;s quietly becoming a legend. Yet his No. 59 could be under siege now that reports are trickling out that\u00a0the Mets have come to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bastardly&#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":[411,387],"tags":[723,520],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","category-uni-controversies","tag-antonio-bastardo","tag-dan-warthen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}