{"id":3205,"date":"2020-01-26T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2020-01-27T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T12:20:27","slug":"dom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3205","title":{"rendered":"Master of His Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/>If he can get to opening day before being traded to another club, it looks like Dominic Smith will do so with a new number.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/>Readers and attendees of yesterday&#8217;s Fan Fest at Citifield reported seeing baseball&#8217;s most popular reserve first baseman sporting No. 2. That&#8217;s evidently because newly arrived Rick Porcello took 22 from him, although as relayed by Matt in the comments in the below section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wonder why Porcello just didn\u2019t take #21. He switched to it in Detroit and wore it in college. I remember Dom got #22 from former coach Tom Goodwin. Seemed like he would be reluctant to give up his number. Maybe Porcello bought him a nice Rolex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s conflicting &#8220;reports&#8221; out there about how much tinkering the Mets may still do with this club; it seems that guys like Smith, Yoenis Cespedes, Brandon Nimmo, Jed Lowrie are being thrown about, though if you ask me there better be Nolan Arenado as the end result if they are going cough these guys up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking News: Dom Smith has changed his jersey number to 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealSmith22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheRealSmith22<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QzhWhpsR4U\">pic.twitter.com\/QzhWhpsR4U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JDeSarno (@WWEGreenbayMets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEGreenbayMets\/status\/1221103367847600128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smith would be the first No. 2 since Joe Panik departed for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/59.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>Also heard from longtime reader Jason, who patches the following holes in the upcoming roster: Steven Gonsalves 59; Andres Gimenez 60; Tomas Szapucki 63;\u00a0Jordan Humpheys 64; and <del>Tim<\/del>\u00a0David Petersen 77. Also, bench coach Hensley Muelens was spotted wearing 58 (thanks Gene).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he can get to opening day before being traded to another club, it looks like Dominic Smith will do so with a new number. Readers and attendees of yesterday&#8217;s Fan Fest at Citifield reported seeing baseball&#8217;s most popular reserve first baseman sporting No. 2. That&#8217;s evidently because newly arrived Rick Porcello took 22 from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Master of His Domain&#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":[387],"tags":[772,883,892],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni-controversies","tag-dominic-smith","tag-joe-panik","tag-rick-porcello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","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=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}