{"id":3051,"date":"2019-02-22T06:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2019-02-22T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:43:35","slug":"for-petes-sake-were-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"For Pete&#8217;s Sake, We&#8217;re 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/>Today marks the 20th year since the Mets by the Numbers website first went live. We&#8217;ll celebrate by wishing best of luck to the Mets&#8217; newest No. 20, Peter Alonso, who by the way asked yesterday that everyone just call him Pete.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too early to tell whether Alonso, or Pete as we call him, will make the opening day squad. I suspect he&#8217;s a longshot till May, unless they can make some trades this spring. At any rate he&#8217;ll be something of a throwback, becoming the first Mets rookie to debut wearing No. 20 in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>They used to do it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>1965 Greg Goosen<\/p>\n<p>1974 Ike Hampston<\/p>\n<p>1977 John Pacella<\/p>\n<p>1981 Greg A Harris<\/p>\n<p>1982 Rick Ownbey<\/p>\n<p>1983 Mike Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p>2003 Prentice Redman<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for checking in with the updates on invited infielders Adeiny Hechavarria (25) and Danny Espinosa (88).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 20th year since the Mets by the Numbers website first went live. We&#8217;ll celebrate by wishing best of luck to the Mets&#8217; newest No. 20, Peter Alonso, who by the way asked yesterday that everyone just call him Pete. It&#8217;s too early to tell whether Alonso, or Pete as we call him, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For Pete&#8217;s Sake, We&#8217;re 20&#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":[422,626],"tags":[857,858,854,855,198,853,106,856],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news","category-useless-milestones","tag-adeiny-hechavarria","tag-danny-espinosa","tag-greg-a-harris","tag-john-pacella","tag-mike-fitzgerald","tag-pete-alonso","tag-prentice-redman","tag-rick-ownbey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}