{"id":448,"date":"2004-08-25T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=448"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:07:34","slug":"mets-sign-brian-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Mets Sign Brian Buchanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today addressed their absurdly weak hitting attack by acquiring recently released righthanded-hitting Padre corner outfielder\u00a0<strong>Brian Buchanan<\/strong>\u00a0(think:<strong>Shane Spencer<\/strong>\u00a0without the drinking problem). Buchanan was given\u00a0<strong>No. 10,<\/strong>\u00a0most recently belonging to\u00a0<strong>Jeff Duncan.<\/strong>\u00a0To make room the Mets demoted\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell 19,<\/strong>\u00a0just a day after a successful Major League debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today addressed their absurdly weak hitting attack by acquiring recently released righthanded-hitting Padre corner outfielder\u00a0Brian Buchanan\u00a0(think:Shane Spencer\u00a0without the drinking problem). Buchanan was given\u00a0No. 10,\u00a0most recently belonging to\u00a0Jeff Duncan.\u00a0To make room the Mets demoted\u00a0Heath Bell 19,\u00a0just a day after a successful Major League debut.<\/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":[161],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-buchanan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}