{"id":489,"date":"2005-04-02T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=489"},"modified":"2017-04-03T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:43:17","slug":"play-ball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets begin the regular season Monday afternoon in Cincinnati. MBTN welcomes the following baker’s dozen to the\u00a0All-Time Numerical Roster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Miguel Cairo<\/strong>
\n4 Chris Woodward<\/strong>
\n11 Ramon Castro<\/strong>
\n15 Carlos Beltran<\/strong>
\n16 Doug Mientkiewicz<\/strong>
\n17 Dae Sung Koo<\/strong>
\n18 Marlon Anderson<\/strong>
\n23 Kazuhisa Ishii<\/strong>
\n27 Mike Matthews<\/strong>
\n39 Roberto Hernandez<\/strong>
\n45 Pedro Martinez<\/strong>
\n46<\/span>\u00a049 Felix Heredia<\/strong>
\n68<\/span>\u00a036 Manny Aybar<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final roster came together this weekend when the Mets coughed up out-of-options pitcher\u00a0Matt Ginter 13<\/strong>\u00a0in a trade to the Tigers for a stashable lefty reliever,\u00a0Steve Colyer,<\/strong>\u00a0and revealed that veteran relievers Matthews, Heredia, Aybar and Hernandez had edged out worthy youngster\u00a0Heath Bell;<\/strong>\u00a0while\u00a0Bartolome Fortunato<\/strong>\u00a0went down with an injury. The 12-man pitching staff probably cost powerhitting rookie\u00a0Luis Garcia<\/strong>\u00a0a spot on the bench. We suspect there will be plenty of churn in the bullpen, where there’s too much age and many lefties, and that the need for a right-handed power bat on the bench will be apparent shortly, but today’s not the day to be pessimistic, so, um,\u00a0Let’s Go Mets!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joining the\u00a0Coaches and Managers List: 2 Sandy Alomar; 12 Willie Randolph; 50 Manny Acta; 52 Guy Conti; 53 Jerry Manuel; 54 Rick Down; 55 Tom Nieto.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mets begin the regular season Monday afternoon in Cincinnati. MBTN welcomes the following baker’s dozen to the\u00a0All-Time Numerical Roster: 3 Miguel Cairo 4 Chris Woodward 11 Ramon Castro 15 Carlos Beltran 16 Doug Mientkiewicz 17 Dae Sung Koo 18 Marlon Anderson 23 Kazuhisa Ishii 27 Mike Matthews 39 Roberto Hernandez 45 Pedro Martinez 46\u00a049 … Continue reading “Play Ball!”<\/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":[13],"tags":[703],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}