{"id":3893,"date":"2025-07-06T06:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2025-07-06T06:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:54:20","slug":"pop-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"Pop Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sure looked like we were never going to win another game after that Pittsburgh series. What would be the catalyst? It turns out, a few unexpectedly effective bullpen games and a few <strong>Brandon Nimmo<\/strong> grand slams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/56.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>The big wheel keeps on turning. Several retreads have made their way back, like <strong>Chris Devenski<\/strong> and <strong>Austin Warren<\/strong>. <strong>Tyler Zuber<\/strong>, whom I thought they saw something in, was DFAed, as was <strong>Colin &#8220;The Pooch&#8221; Poche<\/strong>, who I think may have resigned a minor-league deal. Then there&#8217;s newly arriving reliever <strong>Zach Pop<\/strong>, who deserves to hang around just because his name is Zach Pop (he should pitch to Coco Crisp). New York, London, Paris Munich&#8211;everybody talkin about Pop&#8217;s uni. It&#8217;s No. 56.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/>Prepare for reckless speculation from now till July 31 about the Mets&#8217; appetite for starters and relivers, maybe some from here. I&#8217;m officially starting the <strong>Zac Gallen<\/strong> to the Mets rumor. He wears No. 23!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sure looked like we were never going to win another game after that Pittsburgh series. What would be the catalyst? It turns out, a few unexpectedly effective bullpen games and a few Brandon Nimmo grand slams. The big wheel keeps on turning. Several retreads have made their way back, like Chris Devenski and Austin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pop Star&#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":[866,751],"tags":[1188,1196,1206,1170,1205],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-is-this-guy","category-wild-speculation","tag-austin-warren","tag-chris-devenski","tag-colin-poche","tag-tyler-zuber","tag-zach-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","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=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}