{"id":2495,"date":"2016-02-15T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2016-02-15T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:45:53","slug":"just-our-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Just Our Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\" alt=\"13\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t look now but Jerry Blevins may be wearing No. 13 after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/14\/how-freak-injuries-are-blessing-for-mets-bryce-harper-defense\/\">An article in Sunday&#8217;s NY Post<\/a> says as much, which would conflict with some published rosters (listing the lefty wearing 39) and Blevins own tweets, which suggested Asdrubal Cabrera &#8212; a 13 for most his career with the Indians and Rays who signed ahead of the free agent Blevins &#8212; had the right to the number before him. In fact, the only time Cabrera hasn&#8217;t worn 13 was in 2014: When he was teammates with Blevins in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>This also is another reminder why\u00a0we shouldn&#8217;t put\u00a0too much stock in\u00a0what&#8217;s said and done in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The same paper by the way <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/13\/sandy-alderson-opens-up-on-cancer-spoiling-run-and-why-mets-are-fun-again\/\">has a terrific\u00a0Q&amp;A with Sandy Alderson<\/a> in which the GM confesses to a taste for\u00a0the dramatic, in the context of good timing.\u00a0One of the many things I admire about Alderson is\u00a0that so often there&#8217;s a\u00a0undercurrent of orchestration to the things the club does. Without putting too fine a point on it, he&#8217;s really a storyteller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t look now but Jerry Blevins may be wearing No. 13 after all. An article in Sunday&#8217;s NY Post says as much, which would conflict with some published rosters (listing the lefty wearing 39) and Blevins own tweets, which suggested Asdrubal Cabrera &#8212; a 13 for most his career with the Indians and Rays who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just Our Luck&#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":[711,683,509],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","tag-asdrubal-cabrera","tag-jerry-blevins","tag-sandy-alderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}