{"id":3268,"date":"2020-03-28T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2020-03-28T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:59:51","slug":"blas-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3268","title":{"rendered":"Blas From the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’d been bothering me for a few days now that after assembling the below list of Met 34s, I’d come across yet another<\/em> instance where our humble record here and the posted info as Baseball-reference came into conflict.<\/p>\n

This time? It’s Blas Minor, identified as having worn No. 55 for the Mets in 1995.<\/p>\n

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I’m going dispense with the mystery right here and now and say it: This never happened.<\/p>\n

Minor was wearing 34 for the Mets when 1995 camp broke, he wore it for three innings on the mound in Denver for opening day, and coach Frank Howard occupied No. 55 not only for all of that year but for the entirety of Minor’s career as a Met.<\/p>\n

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The Record newspaper season preview, April 23, 1995. Opening day was April 26.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well why then? As we’ve noted in the past bbr seems to have imported their uni-data from Jack Looney’s book NOW BATTING NUMBER. That work literally has about 12 pounds of impressive research but it’s not nearly as precise as it could be. Multiple number issues in a season aren’t presented in sequence, for example. In Minor’s case, the 55 reference in the book is noted as (INJ), or injured. This could refer to the period that season that he spent on the disabled list or perhaps in a minor league rehab start, but there’s no record of that either. He never wore 55 in a Mets game.<\/p>\n

It’s a Minor error, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’d been bothering me for a few days now that after assembling the below list of Met 34s, I’d come across yet another instance where our humble record here and the posted info as Baseball-reference came into conflict. This time? It’s Blas Minor, identified as having worn No. 55 for the Mets in 1995. I’m … Continue reading “Blas From the Past”<\/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":[411],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","tag-blas-minor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","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=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}