{"id":3802,"date":"2024-05-03T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:47:06","slug":"great-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Great Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/45.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>Promising pitching prospect <strong>Christian Scott<\/strong> is arriving even sooner than I would have guessed and without an obvious need for a starter (unless they cut bait on <strong>Adrian Houser<\/strong> or something). Clubhouse video from Florida, where Scott will start tomorrow, shows he will wear No. 45, which belonged last to <strong>Sam Coonrod<\/strong> (it belonged to <strong>Cole Sulser<\/strong> in Spring Training, only to see him turn up in 54 for his ineffective appearances).<\/p>\n<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;m glad they are giving Scott a pitcher number to begin his career and so won&#8217;t have him looking like a clown as they&#8217;ve forced <strong>Jose Butto<\/strong> into with that unseemly No. 70. Butto should go to the clubhouse and demand No. 21 while its still available. He&#8217;s a good enough pitcher to pull that off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/81.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/>Yesterday we saw <strong>Danny Young<\/strong> become the all-time Mets leader in wins by a guy wearing No. 81. If you remembered that <strong>Johneshwy Fargas<\/strong> was the first to wear 81, you win a prize of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>These Mets have a little scrappiness about them that I like, with a better-than-expected bullpen and a streaky offense that&#8217;s not afraid to come from behind like inferior versions of the Mets. But I&#8217;m concerned with offense out of the catching position, we were much better off before Alvarez went down and he wasn&#8217;t even hot.<\/p>\n<p>Catching up on the downroster churn:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Tonkin<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed for <strong>Julio Teheran<\/strong>, and traded to the Twins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yohan Ramirez<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed for <strong>Cole Sulser<\/strong>, and signed with the Orioles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julio Teheran<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed for <strong>Dedniel Nunez<\/strong> and wound up with the Cubs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Jay<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed for a returning <strong>Michael Tonkin<\/strong>, and re-upped with Syracuse<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kolton Ingram<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed for <strong>Tomas Nido<\/strong>, and re-upped with Syracuse<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Tonkin<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed a second time as <strong>Sean Reid-Foley<\/strong> returns, and lands with the Yankees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zack Short<\/strong> was DFA&#8217;ed as <strong>JD Martinez<\/strong> arrives,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promising pitching prospect Christian Scott is arriving even sooner than I would have guessed and without an obvious need for a starter (unless they cut bait on Adrian Houser or something). Clubhouse video from Florida, where Scott will start tomorrow, shows he will wear No. 45, which belonged last to Sam Coonrod (it belonged to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Scott&#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":[1154,1119,1153,1151,1145,969,1034,1148,1152,1130,1115,748,1134,1133],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-scott","tag-cole-sulser","tag-danny-young","tag-dedniel-nunez","tag-jd-martinez","tag-johneswhy-fargas","tag-jose-butto","tag-julio-teheran","tag-kolton-ingram","tag-michael-tonkin","tag-sam-coonrod","tag-tomas-nido","tag-yohan-ramirez","tag-zack-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","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=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}