{"id":3066,"date":"2019-03-28T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2019-03-28T05:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:29:41","slug":"play-ball-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3066","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when the Mets take the field this afternoon in Washington (and I kill myself missing it due to work commitments), we expect to enter the following names and numbers onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatemets.com\/uninumbers.php\">Mighty Scroll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<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\" \/>Pete Alonso (20); Keon Broxton (23); Robinson Cano (24); JD Davis (28); Justin Wilson (38); Edwin Diaz (39); Wilson Ramos (40); and Luis Avilan (43), along with new coaches Jim Riggleman (50); Chili Davis (54); Chick Hernandez (59) and Luis Rojas (60)<\/p>\n<p>Luis Guillorme (13), Jeff McNeil (6) and Jason Vargas (44) get new numbers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 15 changes if I counted em all up right, so there&#8217;s surely there will be a new feel to the club this year. I have my doubts as to whether an 85-loss team can turn it around as dramatically as the Mets expect to and with four teams all going for it in the East this year it&#8217;s going to end up disappointingly for some of them, but competition ought to be what it&#8217;s about, I&#8217;m grateful they haven&#8217;t sat this one out, and I&#8217;m very happy that baseball is back as a companion and all you guys for a 20th go-round.<\/p>\n<p>LGM, YGB yada yada yada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when the Mets take the field this afternoon in Washington (and I kill myself missing it due to work commitments), we expect to enter the following names and numbers onto the Mighty Scroll: Pete Alonso (20); Keon Broxton (23); Robinson Cano (24); JD Davis (28); Justin Wilson (38); Edwin Diaz (39); Wilson Ramos (40); &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play Ball!&#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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","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=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}