{"id":298,"date":"2003-03-29T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2003-03-29T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:05:09","slug":"the-mcknighthood-of-jason-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"The McKnighthood of Jason Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-106\" alt=\"23\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Mike Piazza&#8217;s punishment for his attempted assault of cowardly Dodger pitcher Guillermo Mota has created the potential for third-string backstop Jason Phillips cracking the roster in the early going. Should Phillips see action, it would be while wearing his third &#8220;official&#8221; different uniform number as a Met and his 4th overall: Quite an accomplishment for a guy with only 26 Major-League at-bats!<\/p>\n<p>To explain: Phillips was called up to Mets in May of 2001 and issued a jersey &#8212; No. 3 &#8212; but did not appear in a game before being sent back to AA Binghamton. Later that year Phillips made his &#8220;official&#8221; Met debut in No. 26 &#8212; his No. 3 had in the meantime been issued to Vance Wilson. Twenty-six was issued to Marco Scutaro prior to Phillips&#8217; September call-up of 2002 so Phillips instead wore No. 7. This spring, the Mets dressed superstar-in-waiting Jose Reyes in No. 7 and told Phillips to take No. 23, which would be his likely number the next time he appears as a Met. The Goggled One still has two more uni-switches ahead of him if he wants to catch all-time uni-number leader Jeff McKnight but he&#8217;s off to a great start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Piazza&#8217;s punishment for his attempted assault of cowardly Dodger pitcher Guillermo Mota has created the potential for third-string backstop Jason Phillips cracking the roster in the early going. Should Phillips see action, it would be while wearing his third &#8220;official&#8221; different uniform number as a Met and his 4th overall: Quite an accomplishment for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The McKnighthood of Jason Phillips&#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":[1],"tags":[41,110,100,111,28],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jason-phillips","tag-jeff-mcknight","tag-jose-reyes","tag-mike-piazza","tag-vance-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}