{"id":3198,"date":"2020-01-25T09:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2020-01-25T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:50:58","slug":"you-say-its-your-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"You Say It’s Your Birthday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we saw yesterday, hastily but hopefully promoted Luis Rojas officially took over as the team’s 23rd manager. I’m going to “count” Carlos Beltran’s 84-day run–they just happened all to be off-days.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rojas slipped on the No. 19 jersey–not because his older brother Moises wore 18 and his father Felipe Alou famously wore 17 as a manager–but because of his birthday September 1– 1\/9 as they would say in in most places.<\/p>\n

Rojas would be first first Mets manager to wear 19, and the first issue of the number since late last year when Sam Haggarty (Sam Who-herty?) appeared, mostly as a pinch runner. Haggerty–who was one of the guys they got from Cleveland in the Kevin Plawecki deal–was dropped from the 40-man roster a few weeks back when Dellin Betances came aboard, and subsequently scooped up by Seattle.<\/p>\n

Here’s a newly updated list of Mets Managers By the Number:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Manager<\/td>\nYears<\/td>\nNumber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Casey Stengel<\/td>\n1962-65<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wes Westrum<\/td>\n1965-67<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salty Parker<\/td>\n1967<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gil Hodges<\/td>\n1968-71<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yogi Berra<\/td>\n1972-75<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roy McMillan<\/td>\n1975<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joe Frazier<\/td>\n1976-77<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joe Torre<\/td>\n1977-81<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
George Bamberger<\/td>\n1982-83<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frank Howard<\/td>\n1983<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Davey Johnson<\/td>\n1984-1990<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bud Harrelson<\/td>\n1990-91<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mike Cubbage<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeff Torborg<\/td>\n1992-93<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dallas Green<\/td>\n1993-96<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bobby Valentine<\/td>\n1996-2002<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Art Howe<\/td>\n2003-2004<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Willie Randolph<\/td>\n2005-2008<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jerry Manuel<\/td>\n2008-2010<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Terry Collins<\/td>\n2011-2017<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mickey Callaway<\/td>\n2018-2019<\/td>\n36\/26*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Beltran<\/td>\n2020**<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luis Rojas<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

*-Switched to 26 upon announcement of Jerry Koosman retirement, 9\/24\/19<\/p>\n

**-Did not appear in a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we saw yesterday, hastily but hopefully promoted Luis Rojas officially took over as the team’s 23rd manager. I’m going to “count” Carlos Beltran’s 84-day run–they just happened all to be off-days. Rojas slipped on the No. 19 jersey–not because his older brother Moises wore 18 and his father Felipe Alou famously wore 17 as … Continue reading “You Say It’s Your Birthday?”<\/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":[170,904,685,887,880],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-dellin-betances","tag-kevin-plawecki","tag-luis-rojas","tag-sam-haggerty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}