{"id":3660,"date":"2022-12-11T17:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:20:34","slug":"would-you-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"Would You Dare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/18.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/>Japan&#8217;s <strong>Kodai Senga<\/strong> is reportedly en route to Flushing as you know, and he&#8217;ll be wearing a different number than the 41 he rocked while a member of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. I think there&#8217;s a good shot he winds up wearing 18, a number traditionally associated with Ace pitchers in Japan, and happens to be available since <strong>Nick Plummer<\/strong> departed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/48.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>One other available number comes to mind: 48. Do you think the Mets ought to mothball <strong>Jacob deGrom<\/strong>&#8216;s number, or give it away? deGrom is a special case of his class of pitchers. <strong>Steven Matz<\/strong>&#8216;s 32, <strong>Matt Harvey<\/strong>&#8216;s 33 and <strong>Noah Syndergaard<\/strong>&#8216;s 34 all found their way onto other guys&#8217; backs pretty rapidly. Me, I&#8217;d be okay if the Mets reissued 48 but would feel better were it for an organization comer and not some reliever who bounces between Syracuse and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Is there an appropriate period of time before you&#8217;d issue it again? One full season seems appropriate. By then at least the Rangers will have won the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Kodai Senga is reportedly en route to Flushing as you know, and he&#8217;ll be wearing a different number than the 41 he rocked while a member of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. I think there&#8217;s a good shot he winds up wearing 18, a number traditionally associated with Ace pitchers in Japan, and happens to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Would You Dare?&#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":[1080,492,1019,604,668],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni-controversies","tag-kodai-senga","tag-matt-harvey","tag-nick-plummer","tag-noah-syndergaard","tag-steven-matz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","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=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}