{"id":421,"date":"2004-04-05T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=421"},"modified":"2017-04-03T05:42:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:42:17","slug":"ready-for-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\">The Mets packed their bags and headed to Atlanta and Tuesday&#8217;s night&#8217;s opener, leaving behind a weird spring training. In the final hours it was revealed that\u00a0<strong>Jose Reyes<\/strong>\u00a0would begin the season on the disabled list, that seeming longshots\u00a0<strong>Eric Valent, Scott Erickson and Orber Moreno<\/strong>\u00a0would make the team, and that<strong>Jae Seo, Roger Cedeno and Timo Perez<\/strong>\u00a0would be elsewhere. Valent, a minor league phase Rule 5 pick from the Phillies dressed in\u00a0<strong>No. 57<\/strong>\u00a0for spring training; we&#8217;re waiting to see whether he gets more dignified number. It&#8217;s our guess that Scott Erickson ditches the\u00a0<strong>89<\/strong>given him and takes his customary\u00a0<strong>19<\/strong>\u00a0instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We welcome them, along with\u00a0<strong>Ricky Gutierrez 6, Karim Garcia 20, Kazuo Matsui 25, Tyler Yates 33, Braden Looper 40, Shane Spencer 43 and Mike Cameron 44<\/strong>\u00a0to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/list.htm\">All-Time Mets Numerical Roster<\/a><\/strong>, with\u00a0<strong>Todd Zeile 27<\/strong>\u00a0making a second appearance in a new number, and\u00a0<strong>Rick Peterson 51<\/strong>\u00a0cracking the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/coaches.htm\">Coaches and Managers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0list.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets packed their bags and headed to Atlanta and Tuesday&#8217;s night&#8217;s opener, leaving behind a weird spring training. In the final hours it was revealed that\u00a0Jose Reyes\u00a0would begin the season on the disabled list, that seeming longshots\u00a0Eric Valent, Scott Erickson and Orber Moreno\u00a0would make the team, and thatJae Seo, Roger Cedeno and Timo Perez\u00a0would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ready for Opening Day&#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":[13],"tags":[703],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}