{"id":3480,"date":"2021-11-29T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:24:18","slug":"max-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Max Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hello from the most active offseason since Omar Minaya<\/strong> reeled in Carlos Beltran<\/strong> and Pedro Martinez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You are no doubt in receipt of reports today that the Mets have reached a massive 3-year deal with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer<\/strong> after making successful bids late last week for veterans Starling Marte<\/strong>, Mark Cahna<\/strong> and Eduardo Escobar<\/strong>. And with trades, relief-pitching, depth deals and a new manager still ahead, that’s a mighty heavy workload for newly arrived GM, Billy Eppler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Scherzer has worn 31 in Washington and in LA, but with Mike Piazza<\/strong> having taken that out of the Mets’ rotation, we’re tentatively anticipating he’ll take it up a notch the 32. That figure belonged most recently to Aaron Loup<\/strong>, who departed to Anaheim on a free-agent deal following Noah Syndergaard<\/strong>, who made the very same move.<\/p>\n

Syndergaard’s departure marks the final end to a durable, multipronged trade chain dating back to Tim Bogar<\/strong>,\u00a0who debuted with the Mets in 1993, was traded to Houston for Luis Lopez,\u00a0<\/strong>who went to Milwaukee for\u00a0Bill Pulsipher,\u00a0<\/strong>who went to Arizona for Lenny Harris,<\/strong>\u00a0who went to Milwaukee for\u00a0Jeromy Burnitz,<\/strong> whose trade to Los Angeles yielded Victor Diaz,\u00a0<\/strong>who was traded to Texas for catcher Mike Nickeas<\/strong>, who was sent to Toronto in the Syndergaard trade.<\/p>\n

Noah departs as the Mets’ all-time leader in winning-percentage and strikeouts among Guys Who Wore 34. He was three wins short of Mike Pelfrey for the victory title.<\/p>\n

\"\"Marte is a sports-car enthusiast (true story: I met his car-dealer at a convention in Las Vegas) who looks to take over center field duties as Brandon Nimmo slides over to left field and Canha takes over in right. Marte has worn No. 6 with Pittsburgh and Miami and No. 2 with Oakland and Arizona. \"\"One or both could be available depending on whether change-ofscenery trade candidates Dom Smith<\/strong> and Jeff McNeil<\/strong> survive Eppler’s dealmaking in the weeks ahead. Cahna has worn 20 \"\"with Oakland and will need a new issue. Escobar, a switch-hitting infielder who looks likely to take a role similar to Jonathan Villar<\/strong> last season, has worn 5 most often in his career and so encounters a retired number in New York. Scientists project he could wind up in 7 here.<\/p>\n

More to come!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello from the most active offseason since Omar Minaya reeled in Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez. You are no doubt in receipt of reports today that the Mets have reached a massive 3-year deal with free agent pitcher Max Scherzer after making successful bids late last week for veterans Starling Marte, Mark Cahna and Eduardo … Continue reading “Max Power”<\/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":[411,916,626,866],"tags":[945,251,1004,170,1001,50,250,1000,1002,556,111,604,166,169,1003,189,144],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-mysteries","category-that-actually-happened","category-useless-milestones","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-aaron-loup","tag-bill-pulsipher","tag-billy-eppler","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-eduardo-escobar","tag-lenny-harris","tag-luis-lopez","tag-matk-canha","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mike-nickeas","tag-mike-piazza","tag-noah-syndergaard","tag-omar-minaya","tag-pedro-martinez","tag-starling-marte","tag-tim-bogar","tag-victor-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","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=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}