{"id":475,"date":"2005-01-11T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=475"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:33:40","slug":"cairo-koo-in-vance-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Cairo, Koo In; Vance Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week came word the Mets had traded veteran backup catcher\u00a0<strong>Vance Wilson 3<\/strong>\u00a0to Detroit for minor league infielder\u00a0<strong>Anderson Hernandez;<\/strong>signed veteran backup infielder\u00a0<strong>Miguel Cairo;\u00a0<\/strong>and signed lefthanded reliever\u00a0<strong>Dae-Sung Koo.\u00a0<\/strong>That Wilson was the Met to go was surprising but, in our estimation, the right choice to make seeing as\u00a0<strong>Jason Phillips 23<\/strong>\u00a0is younger, a better receiver and possesses more of an upside, notwithstanding his lousy sophomore year. One thing certain about Cairo is that you won&#8217;t see him in his customary\u00a0<strong>No. 41:<\/strong>\u00a0That&#8217;s unavailable. Aquiring Koo was a coup in that newspapers hinted he, like Beltran, was simply assumed to be a future Yankee. Heh. Said to have a sneaky arm that will trouble lefthanded hitters, Koo wore\u00a0<strong>No. 15<\/strong>\u00a0with Orix of the Japan Pacific League &#8212; that will belong to Beltran for awhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week came word the Mets had traded veteran backup catcher\u00a0Vance Wilson 3\u00a0to Detroit for minor league infielder\u00a0Anderson Hernandez;signed veteran backup infielder\u00a0Miguel Cairo;\u00a0and signed lefthanded reliever\u00a0Dae-Sung Koo.\u00a0That Wilson was the Met to go was surprising but, in our estimation, the right choice to make seeing as\u00a0Jason Phillips 23\u00a0is younger, a better receiver and possesses more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cairo, Koo In; Vance Out&#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":[1],"tags":[176,177,28],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anderson-hernandez","tag-mr-koo","tag-vance-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}