{"id":3652,"date":"2022-12-06T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2022-12-06T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:01:51","slug":"cy-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"Cy Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/35.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>It didn&#8217;t take long for the Mets to address the vacancy of <strong>Jacob deGrom<\/strong> as Steve Cohen threw a pile of money at Cy Young winner <strong>Justin Verlander<\/strong> who joins 38-year-old <strong>Max Scherzer<\/strong> at the top of the rotation. Verlander will be 40 next year so I&#8217;m tempering my expectations while still fretting over the prospect of retaining or replacing <strong>Brandon Nimmo<\/strong>, securing a reliable designated hitter, and making sure the club has a rotation that&#8217;s young enough and deep enough to count on. <strong>Carlos Carrasco<\/strong>, the current No. 3 starter, will be 36. Then you&#8217;ve got the relatively unproven arms of <strong>Tylor Megill<\/strong> and <strong>David Peterson.\u00a0<\/strong>Another arm would be nice.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander will be the first Mets 35 of any substance since <strong>Dillon Gee<\/strong> (2010-2015) even though eight guys have worn it since him, most recently the emergency catcher <strong>Michael Perez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for the Mets to address the vacancy of Jacob deGrom as Steve Cohen threw a pile of money at Cy Young winner Justin Verlander who joins 38-year-old Max Scherzer at the top of the rotation. Verlander will be 40 next year so I&#8217;m tempering my expectations while still fretting over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cy Old&#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":[1],"tags":[719,940,917,508,645,1075,1002,1023,1017],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carlos-carrasco","tag-david-peterson","tag-dillon-gee","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-justin-verlander","tag-max-scherzer","tag-michael-perez","tag-tylor-megill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","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=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}