{"id":454,"date":"2004-09-24T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:12:06","slug":"were-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"We’re Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just like\u00a0Richard Hidalgo,<\/strong>\u00a0we took most of September off, but we’re back in time to wrap up the September moves. Thanks for hanging in there as we moved to new World Headquarters in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Let’s plow through the September moves we missed (all updated now):
\nSept. 1: Recalled\u00a0Matt Ginter 13; Tyler Yates 33 and Craig Brazell 9<\/strong>\u00a0from Triple-A Norfolk.
\nSept. 4: Called up veteran lefty\u00a0Vic Darensbourg<\/strong>\u00a0from AAA, and assigned him\u00a0No. 39.<\/strong>
\nSept. 8: Recalled\u00a0Aaron Heilman 48.<\/strong>
\nSept. 10: Sent\u00a0Matt Ginter 13<\/strong>\u00a0to the 60-day DL and recalled AAA hitting machine\u00a0Victor Diaz,<\/strong>\u00a0who debuted the next day wearing\u00a0No. 50.<\/strong>
\nSept. 14: Sent\u00a0Vance Wilson 3<\/strong>\u00a0to the disabled list and recalled catcher\u00a0Joe Hietpas<\/strong>\u00a0from AA Binghamton. An emergency catcher, Heitpas has somehow avoided emergencies since his recall and is still waiting to become the third\u00a0No. 10<\/strong>\u00a0this season.
\nSept. 24: The Mets finally get their table setters returned to them,\u00a0Jose Reyes 7,<\/strong>\u00a0who sat out with a broken bone, and\u00a0Kazuo Matsui 25,<\/strong>\u00a0resting a sore back.<\/p>\n

Finally, let’s bid farewell and better times to manager\u00a0Art Howe,<\/strong>\u00a0who’ll be turning over his keys and the\u00a0No. 18<\/strong>\u00a0jersey after the season, along with most of his coaching staff. Though we grant Art was little more than a caretaker and nobody’s idea of a brilliant strategist, we’re sure he did his earnest best and applaud his class and dignity as he takes the axe and unnecessarily absorbs three weeks of lame duckness for two teams that performed below expectations for reasons in, and often out, of his control. We were scratching our heads when he walked in the door, too. Good luck, Art!<\/p>\n

As noted below, this was a weird year, even by Met standards, and we’re saddened that it ends with less promise than it began. The search for Art Howe’s replacement will kick off what ought to be a fascinating offseason and for the sixth straight year, join us for the soap opera here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just like\u00a0Richard Hidalgo,\u00a0we took most of September off, but we’re back in time to wrap up the September moves. Thanks for hanging in there as we moved to new World Headquarters in Brooklyn. Let’s plow through the September moves we missed (all updated now): Sept. 1: Recalled\u00a0Matt Ginter 13; Tyler Yates 33 and Craig Brazell … Continue reading “We’re Back”<\/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":[1],"tags":[91,165,163,164],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art-howe","tag-joe-hietpas","tag-richard-hidalgo","tag-vic-darensbourg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}