{"id":3733,"date":"2023-07-30T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2023-07-30T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:26:42","slug":"maxed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Maxed Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"41\" height=\"48\" \/>I&#8217;ll miss <strong>David Robertson<\/strong> and his reliable socks more than I&#8217;ll ever miss <strong>Max Scherzer<\/strong> and his reliable gopherballs.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows whether <strong>Luisangel Acuna<\/strong> actually becomes a star; what we know was that Scherzer wasn&#8217;t one anymore. At best, he was a fading one whose 2024 looks pretty risky, so I&#8217;m glad he and all that money are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Next up? Probably <strong>Tommy Pham<\/strong> and maybe <strong>Brooks Raley.<\/strong> Verlander? He might stay. Hopefully the rest of these guys give us a starting pitcher because I&#8217;m not looking forward to <strong>David Peterson<\/strong> and <strong>Tylor Megill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/75.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>Up from Syracuse to take Max&#8217;s place is <strong>Vinny Nottoli<\/strong>. <strong>Reed Garrett<\/strong>, No. 75, replaced Robertson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll miss David Robertson and his reliable socks more than I&#8217;ll ever miss Max Scherzer and his reliable gopherballs. Who knows whether Luisangel Acuna actually becomes a star; what we know was that Scherzer wasn&#8217;t one anymore. At best, he was a fading one whose 2024 looks pretty risky, so I&#8217;m glad he and all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maxed Out&#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":[916,807,866],"tags":[1077,917,1105,1002,1104,1084,1017,1100],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-that-actually-happened","category-this-friggin-team","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-brooks-raley","tag-david-peterson","tag-david-robertson","tag-max-scherzer","tag-reed-garrett","tag-tommy-pham","tag-tylor-megill","tag-vinny-nottoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","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=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}