{"id":3884,"date":"2025-06-02T11:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:12:03","slug":"young-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3884","title":{"rendered":"Young Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/29.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>Wearing No. 29, batting lefthanded, tall guy with some power&#8211;it&#8217;s not <strong>Ike Davis<\/strong> (or <strong>Dave Magadan<\/strong>). It&#8217;s <strong>Jared Young<\/strong>! A journeyman slugger from Canada, Young suddenly appeared as the regular DH one day and hasn&#8217;t stopped playing since (at least against right handers). I will give earwitness testimony that his home run in Citi Field on Tuesday was the loudest shot in an inning full of loud shots. He hits the ball hard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be foolish to think Young is a sudden everyday big leaguer after a nine-year career with parts of all of them in minors (save for one season in Korea) but he&#8217;s the first real upside surprise of 2025, at least on the offensive side, and that&#8217;s a good thing when your team is dragging around<strong> Francisco Alvarez<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Vientos<\/strong>. He really reminds me a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=834\">MBTN favorite <strong>Kelvin Torve<\/strong><\/a>, also a lefty minor-league vet who got off to a hot start in Queens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/49.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>Elsewhere on the transaction front we&#8217;ve seen a shuffling of back-end relief workers. At the moment, <strong>Chris Devenski<\/strong> (49) is back up with the Mets and <strong>Brandon Waddell<\/strong> (82) is down. Waddell got smacked around by the White Sox the other day but leaves the Mets with a lone lefty in the bullpen. <strong>Genesis Cabrera<\/strong> (92) and <strong>Jose Azocar<\/strong> (28), cashiered for Waddell and Young, respectively, refused to participate in another go-round in Syracuse and found themselves new employers. Cabrera signed with the Cubs and Azocar is with the Braves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/58.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>The next big shakeup for the Mets could come when the pitchers start returning from the disabled list. <strong>Paul Blackburn<\/strong> is expected today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing No. 29, batting lefthanded, tall guy with some power&#8211;it&#8217;s not Ike Davis (or Dave Magadan). It&#8217;s Jared Young! A journeyman slugger from Canada, Young suddenly appeared as the regular DH one day and hasn&#8217;t stopped playing since (at least against right handers). I will give earwitness testimony that his home run in Citi Field &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young Love&#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":[916,866],"tags":[1199,1201,482,1083,1198,445,1189,1176,734,1065,1171],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-that-actually-happened","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-brandon-waddell","tag-chris-devinski","tag-dave-magadan","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-genesis-cabrera","tag-ike-davis","tag-jared-young","tag-jose-azocar","tag-kelvin-torve","tag-mark-vientos","tag-paul-blackburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","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=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}