{"id":3113,"date":"2019-05-27T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2019-05-27T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:32:02","slug":"rajai-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"Rajai and Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those unpredictable Mets keep on churning the roster and you never know what&#8217;ll happen next.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/>This week, with Nimmo and Conforto out, we introduced Rajai Davis and Aaron Altherr as special guest outfielders and each of them hit a home run in their first plate appearance. Davis, who didn&#8217;t get an R designation on his nameplate despite the team already employing two other members of the Davis family (JD &amp; Chili) wore No. 18, and Altherr took the 23 jersey most recently belonging to Keon Broxton. The Mets in the meantime signed Matt Kemp to a minor-league contract, then DFA&#8217;ed Davis to make room for the returning Conforto.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/27.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/>Should Kemp make it up here&#8211;and signing a veteran All-Star is becoming something of a Mets tradition given the recent history of Jose Bautista and Adrian Gonzalez and James Loney&#8211;they&#8217;ll need to find another uniform number than the 27 he&#8217;s previously worn over 1,700 games for Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta and Cincinnati. Juerys Familia has already kept 27 from Carlos Gomez.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/63.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>The new additions and subsequent roster crush has resulted not only in Davis&#8217; assignment but also cost Paul Sewald and Tim Peterson spots. The latter two escaped the scrutiny even of the Washington Nationals and have landed back in Syracuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those unpredictable Mets keep on churning the roster and you never know what&#8217;ll happen next. This week, with Nimmo and Conforto out, we introduced Rajai Davis and Aaron Altherr as special guest outfielders and each of them hit a home run in their first plate appearance. Davis, who didn&#8217;t get an R designation on his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rajai and Out&#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":[866],"tags":[867,789,298,730,868,840,756,859,814],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-aaron-altherr","tag-adrian-gonzalez","tag-carlos-gomez","tag-james-loney","tag-jose-bautista","tag-keon-broxton","tag-paul-sewald","tag-rajai-davis","tag-tim-peterson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","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=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}