{"id":518,"date":"2005-07-16T01:11:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=518"},"modified":"2013-11-30T01:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T01:12:47","slug":"santiago-up-bell-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Up, Bell Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets arrived in Denver tonight with journeyman righthander\u00a0<strong>Jose Santiago<\/strong>\u00a0wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 33.<\/strong>Santiago was recalled from Norfolk Sunday when\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell 19<\/strong>\u00a0was demoted and informed he needs to develop a change-up. No. 33 was issued earlier this year to backup catcher\u00a0<strong>Mike DiFelice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mets announced Friday that first baseman\u00a0<strong>Doug Mientkiewicz 16<\/strong>\u00a0has returned from a rehab stint and that cobwebby pinch-hitter\u00a0<strong>Brian Daubach 13<\/strong>\u00a0was returned to Norfolk. They also promoted Norfolk closer\u00a0<strong>Juan Padilla<\/strong>\u00a0and returned lefty\u00a0<strong>Royce Ring 22<\/strong>\u00a0to the farm. Padilla comes to the Mets having had an excellent half-season at Norfolk and Ring&#8217;s demotion seems to suggest that infuriating starter\u00a0<strong>Kaz Ishii 23<\/strong>\u00a0will get a look in the pen. Padilla was assigned\u00a0<strong>No. 28,<\/strong>\u00a0which for two years sat patiently awaiting the return of\u00a0<strong>Scott Strickland.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets arrived in Denver tonight with journeyman righthander\u00a0Jose Santiago\u00a0wearing\u00a0No. 33.Santiago was recalled from Norfolk Sunday when\u00a0Heath Bell 19\u00a0was demoted and informed he needs to develop a change-up. No. 33 was issued earlier this year to backup catcher\u00a0Mike DiFelice. The Mets announced Friday that first baseman\u00a0Doug Mientkiewicz 16\u00a0has returned from a rehab stint and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Santiago Up, Bell Down&#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":[191,160,193,175,184,122],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-daubach","tag-heath-bell","tag-jose-santiago","tag-juan-padilla","tag-kaz-ishii","tag-royce-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}