{"id":479,"date":"2005-02-01T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=479"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:38:54","slug":"mets-trade-for-meintkiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Mets Trade for Meintkiewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only hours after\u00a0<strong>Carlos Delgado<\/strong>\u00a0and his scheming agent left the Mets high and dry came word that Omar had traded promising ex-Cyclone\u00a0<strong>Ian Bladergroen<\/strong>\u00a0for spare Red Sock first baseman\u00a0<strong>Doug Mientkiewicz.<\/strong>\u00a0Minky brings an excellent glove but an average bat to his new job, but was probably the best among the consolation prizes.\u00a0<strong>Mientkiewicz\u00a0<\/strong>wore\u00a0<strong>No. 16<\/strong>\u00a0for most of his career in Minnesota and\u00a0<strong>No. 13<\/strong>\u00a0in Boston, but what might be most interesting is seeing whether the Mets manage to fit that unweildly last name onto the back of a jersey without dropping the leading: His 12-lettered name matches\u00a0<strong>Isringhausen<\/strong>\u00a0for the longest in Met history. Omar contends the offseason acquisition spree is all but done, but we&#8217;ll believe it when 25 men depart from St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/caravan05.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"200\" \/>Spotted at the Met Caravan this week: New manager\u00a0<strong>Willie Randolph\u00a0<\/strong>has indeed returned to his Met\u00a0<strong>No. 12,<\/strong>\u00a0as reported by MBTN reader Keith, and the photo above appears to show<strong>Danny Garcia<\/strong>\u00a0accomodating by taking\u00a0<strong>No. 1.<\/strong>\u00a0The Met roster lists\u00a0<strong>Miguel Cairo<\/strong>\u00a0(next to Diaz) in\u00a0<strong>No. 3<\/strong>\u00a0and reliever\u00a0<strong>Dae Sung Koo\u00a0<\/strong>(next to Brazell in the top row) in\u00a0<strong>No. 60;<\/strong>\u00a0but we haven&#8217;t confirmed either by eyewitness. We&#8217;re unsure who that guy is in the back row between Looper and Bell (DeJean?), as well as the dude on the farthest right on the top row.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Updates:<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The guy in\u00a0<strong>No. 52<\/strong>\u00a0is is new bullpen coach\u00a0<strong>Guy Conti,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0not Jerry or Charlie Manuel as we incorrectly guessed here. Thanks to readers\u00a0<strong>Matt<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Sean<\/strong>\u00a0for pointing it out! Also today, we discovered that\u00a0<strong>Victor Diaz<\/strong>\u00a0has been given the more dignified\u00a0<strong>No. 20<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; he was a rookieish\u00a0<strong>50<\/strong>\u00a0last year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only hours after\u00a0Carlos Delgado\u00a0and his scheming agent left the Mets high and dry came word that Omar had traded promising ex-Cyclone\u00a0Ian Bladergroen\u00a0for spare Red Sock first baseman\u00a0Doug Mientkiewicz.\u00a0Minky brings an excellent glove but an average bat to his new job, but was probably the best among the consolation prizes.\u00a0Mientkiewicz\u00a0wore\u00a0No. 16\u00a0for most of his career in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mets Trade for Meintkiewicz&#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":[179,182,180,181,177,144,167],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doug-mientkiewicz","tag-guy-conti","tag-jason-isringhausen","tag-miguel-cairo","tag-mr-koo","tag-victor-diaz","tag-willie-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}