{"id":3895,"date":"2025-07-09T05:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:47:37","slug":"call-to-the-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Call to the Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/80.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>They should stop with all this randomness and just assign relievers numbers in ascending order starting at say, 50. Had we done so, most recent Met <strong>Alex Carillo<\/strong> would be wearing 80 and and not 84, being the 30th guy to make a non-starting appearance in a Mets game this year (if I counted right).<\/p>\n<p>Carillo survived a shaky inning and a third last night as the Mets did something they rarely do anymore and came from behind to defeat the Orioles in extra innings. Carillo will probably get cashed out today for his efforts if not already and we&#8217;ll move on to reliever No. 31, uniform No. 81.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>Meantime I neglected to mention the Mets promoted bullpenner <strong>Rico Garcia<\/strong> the other day. A native Hawaiian, they were aware enough to assign the guy No. 50, joining Hawaiian-born Met luminaries <strong>Sid Fernandez<\/strong> and <strong>Benny Agbayani<\/strong>. Other Aloha State Mets (<strong>Ron Darling, Carlos Diaz, Jordan Yamamoto <\/strong>and <strong>Tyler Yates<\/strong>) went without 50.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/56.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>Zach Pop<\/strong> has a classic name but between us looked like he didn&#8217;t even want to be out there in his lone Met appearance and was waived to make room for Carillo. Should have signed Zach Rock. That guy rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They should stop with all this randomness and just assign relievers numbers in ascending order starting at say, 50. Had we done so, most recent Met Alex Carillo would be wearing 80 and and not 84, being the 30th guy to make a non-starting appearance in a Mets game this year (if I counted right). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Call to the Bullpen&#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":[626,866],"tags":[1208,580,947,1207,533,566,69,1205],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useless-milestones","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-alex-carillo","tag-carlos-diaz","tag-jordan-yamamoto","tag-rico-garcia","tag-ron-darling","tag-sid-fernandez","tag-tyler-yates","tag-zach-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}