{"id":2842,"date":"2018-02-16T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2018-02-16T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:15:16","slug":"reporting-for-duty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2842","title":{"rendered":"Reporting for Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was traveling for work and missed the reliable and alert Matt B passing along the following comment:<\/p>\n

10 \u2013 Gary DiSarcina
\n20 \u2013 Ruben Amaro Jr.
\n21 \u2013 Todd Frazier
\n23 \u2013 Adrian Gonzalez
\n36 \u2013 Mickey Callaway
\n38 \u2013 Anthony Swarzak
\n56 \u2013 Tom Slater
\n58 \u2013 Dave Eiland
\n59 \u2013 Jose Lobaton
\n83 \u2013 Tim Tebow<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Little we hadn’t guessed already<\/a> except for the Swarzak reveal. All these years, all those guys, and I still think No. 38 is Skip Lockwood (and Buzz Capra) which I suppose is better than thinking of Victor Zambrano and Vic Black. Dan Warthen was the last guy to wear it. The Mets still haven’t published an official roster yet so I’ll fill in the blanks when they do that or when I take my next trip — to Florida in a couple of weeks to see some Spring Training games for the first time in a while.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There may still be a few more guys showing up. The Mets resigned Matt den Dekker to a minor league deal. You might recall he wore No. 6 in his previous tour of duty, that belongs now to hitting coach Pat Roessler. Yesterday came more indication the Mets are looking at Jason Vargas, the lefty given away when Omar Minaya uselessly moved heaven and earth to acquire JJ Putz. Vargas wore 43 in his last tour.<\/p>\n

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I was traveling for work and missed the reliable and alert Matt B passing along the following comment: 10 \u2013 Gary DiSarcina 20 \u2013 Ruben Amaro Jr. 21 \u2013 Todd Frazier 23 \u2013 Adrian Gonzalez 36 \u2013 Mickey Callaway 38 \u2013 Anthony Swarzak 56 \u2013 Tom Slater 58 \u2013 Dave Eiland 59 \u2013 Jose Lobaton … Continue reading “Reporting for Duty”<\/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":[787,795,520,280,632,684,796,648,155],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","tag-anthony-swarzak","tag-buzz-capra","tag-dan-warthen","tag-jason-vargas","tag-matt-den-dekker","tag-pat-roessler","tag-skip-lockwood","tag-vic-black","tag-victor-zambrano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}