{"id":485,"date":"2005-03-20T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:46:29","slug":"kaz-zam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Kaz-Zam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets wasted little time replenishing rotation depth following\u00a0<strong>Steve Trachsel&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0injury, trading for left-handed Dodgers project\u00a0<strong>Kaz Ishii,<\/strong>\u00a0who arrived in St. Lucie today and summarily put on the\u00a0<strong>No. 23<\/strong>\u00a0uniform of the guy he was traded for,\u00a0<strong>Jason Phillips.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ishii&#8217;s control problems have frustrated Dodger fans for years, and\u00a0<strong>Rick Peterson<\/strong>\u00a0is certain to have his hands full, but there&#8217;s no denying Ishii has some ability and when you can get a starting pitcher for a backup catcher you generally do it, so we&#8217;re on board. We&#8217;ll certainly miss Phillips&#8217; goofy glasses and his line-drive hitting if that happens to come back, but inasmuch as the trade provides him with a chance to play more often in an attempt to erase the disaster of 2004 from his mind, we&#8217;re all for that too. The Ishii-Phillips trade is the 19th known addition to the all-time\u00a0<strong>Uni-Swap<\/strong>\u00a0list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets wasted little time replenishing rotation depth following\u00a0Steve Trachsel&#8217;s\u00a0injury, trading for left-handed Dodgers project\u00a0Kaz Ishii,\u00a0who arrived in St. Lucie today and summarily put on the\u00a0No. 23\u00a0uniform of the guy he was traded for,\u00a0Jason Phillips. Ishii&#8217;s control problems have frustrated Dodger fans for years, and\u00a0Rick Peterson\u00a0is certain to have his hands full, but there&#8217;s no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kaz-Zam&#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":[41,184],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jason-phillips","tag-kaz-ishii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}