{"id":3707,"date":"2023-04-19T06:18:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2023-04-19T06:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:18:03","slug":"the-cookie-crumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"The Cookie Crumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/59.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>As uninspiring his outings have tended to be, losing <strong>Carlos Carrasco<\/strong> to elbow problems is not what the Mets needed right now, seeing as they&#8217;ve already got two dudes in the rotation who might not have been in the blueprint, since <strong>Jose Quintana<\/strong> and<strong> Justin Verlander<\/strong> have yet to appear. Is <strong>Joey Lucchesi<\/strong> the next to appear? I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/43.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>Last night (I didn&#8217;t stay up to watch) <strong>Jeff Brigham<\/strong> made his first Met appearance and struck out the only two guys he faced. Brigham came over in a small offseason trade with the Marlins and has some experience with them. He&#8217;s the immediate solution for Carrasco till his turn in the rotation comes up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/64.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>Also with the big club now are <strong>Edwin Uceta<\/strong>, who came up along with <strong>Brett Baty, <\/strong>when <strong>Tim Locastro <\/strong>went onto the disabled list. Uceta, whom the Mets acquired on a waiver claim from Pittsburgh, has been issued No. 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As uninspiring his outings have tended to be, losing Carlos Carrasco to elbow problems is not what the Mets needed right now, seeing as they&#8217;ve already got two dudes in the rotation who might not have been in the blueprint, since Jose Quintana and Justin Verlander have yet to appear. Is Joey Lucchesi the next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cookie Crumbles&#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":[866],"tags":[1035,940,1090,1070,1076,1075,1091],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-brett-baty","tag-carlos-carrasco","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-jeff-brigham","tag-jose-quintana","tag-justin-verlander","tag-tim-locastro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","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=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}