{"id":2559,"date":"2016-04-28T05:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2016-04-28T05:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:31:50","slug":"harvey-hi33tory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Hi33tory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/33.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/33.gif\" alt=\"33\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Congrats are in order for Matt Harvey, whose fifth strikeout last night helped him surpass John Maine to become the Mets&#8217; all-time leader in strikeouts by guys who wore 33.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey raced to his current career total of 470 whiffs in just 455.1 innings pitched, a pretty impressive feat for a guy I love to hate.<\/p>\n<p>In other races we&#8217;re watching this year, keep an eye on Jacob deGrom as he mounts an assault on\u00a0Aaron Heilman&#8217;s all-time mark of 395 strikeouts by a 48: At his rate, that&#8217;ll be sometime in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/34.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/34.gif\" alt=\"34\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Harvey, deGrom,\u00a0Noah Syndergaard\u00a0and Steven Matz in the meantime have quite the battle on their hands for strikeout supremacy, between themselves and their extended numerical families. Matz &#8216; Team 32 has the current lead among them at 2,034 career K&#8217;s, with Syndergaard&#8217;s 34s currently at 1,946; Harvey&#8217;s 33s at 1,934 and deGrom&#8217;s 48s at 1,909.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible\u00a0that all four of these jerseys surpass 16 to move into the top five of all time before the season is over. Not that we need reminding, but these are the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats are in order for Matt Harvey, whose fifth strikeout last night helped him surpass John Maine to become the Mets&#8217; all-time leader in strikeouts by guys who wore 33. Harvey raced to his current career total of 470 whiffs in just 455.1 innings pitched, a pretty impressive feat for a guy I love to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harvey Hi33tory&#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":[626],"tags":[645,221,492,604,668],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useless-milestones","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-john-maine","tag-matt-harvey","tag-noah-syndergaard","tag-steven-matz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}