{"id":529,"date":"2005-08-23T02:19:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T02:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=529"},"modified":"2013-11-30T02:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T02:21:45","slug":"trach-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Trach is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today welcomed back\u00a0<strong>Steve Trachsel 29,<\/strong>\u00a0and slotted him in the rotation on Friday. The drama as to who would be sacrificed to make room for him was satisfactorily resolved when washed-up mop-up man\u00a0<strong>Danny Graves 32<\/strong>\u00a0was designated for assignment. On Monday, beefy reliever\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell 19<\/strong>\u00a0was recalled from Norfolk while\u00a0<strong>Dae Sung Koo 17<\/strong>\u00a0was demoted. On Sunday, reserve catcher\u00a0<strong>Mike DeFelice 33<\/strong>\u00a0returned to the active roster when the Mets got around to disabling catcher\u00a0<strong>Mike Piazza 31.<\/strong>\u00a0Meanwhile, a massive three-run homer in his debut turn at bat Sunday appears to have saved a job for\u00a0<strong>Mike Jacobs 27,<\/strong>\u00a0who&#8217;s now your starting first baseman.<\/p>\n<p>MBTN reader\u00a0<strong>Mike from Tennessee<\/strong>\u00a0points out that Jacobs became the fourth Met to hit a home run in his first Major League at-bat &#8212; and that each of them had ascending uni numbers:\u00a0<strong>Benny Ayala 18; Mike Fitzgerald 20; Kaz Matsui 25; and Jacobs 27.<\/strong>\u00a0This is the kind of useless history MBTN was designed to capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today welcomed back\u00a0Steve Trachsel 29,\u00a0and slotted him in the rotation on Friday. The drama as to who would be sacrificed to make room for him was satisfactorily resolved when washed-up mop-up man\u00a0Danny Graves 32\u00a0was designated for assignment. On Monday, beefy reliever\u00a0Heath Bell 19\u00a0was recalled from Norfolk while\u00a0Dae Sung Koo 17\u00a0was demoted. On Sunday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trach is Back&#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":[197,160,135,187,198,142,111,177,78],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benny-ayala","tag-heath-bell","tag-kaz-matsui","tag-mike-difelice","tag-mike-fitzgerald","tag-mike-jacobs","tag-mike-piazza","tag-mr-koo","tag-steve-trachsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}