{"id":538,"date":"2005-11-15T04:25:40","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-11-30T04:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:26:51","slug":"the-x-man-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"The X Man Cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That miscast,\u00a0broken-faced outfielder\u00a0<strong>Mike Cameron 44<\/strong>\u00a0would be traded was fairly\u00a0predictable; receiving reserve Padres 1B\/OF\u00a0<strong>Xavier Nady<\/strong>\u00a0in return<br \/>\nwas the surprise. Nady, who smacks lefties around pretty well and can<br \/>\nfake it at several positions, looks to be a useful pickup but it&#8217;s sad<br \/>\nthe Mets never fully exploited Cameron&#8217;s ability as a center fielder nor<br \/>\nas a trade chip. Nady by the way wore<strong>\u00a0No. 22<\/strong>\u00a0with the Padres. That<br \/>\nnumber most recently belonged to reliever\u00a0<strong>Royce Ring.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That miscast,\u00a0broken-faced outfielder\u00a0Mike Cameron 44\u00a0would be traded was fairly\u00a0predictable; receiving reserve Padres 1B\/OF\u00a0Xavier Nady\u00a0in return was the surprise. Nady, who smacks lefties around pretty well and can fake it at several positions, looks to be a useful pickup but it&#8217;s sad the Mets never fully exploited Cameron&#8217;s ability as a center fielder nor as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The X Man Cometh&#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":[136,209],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mike-cameron","tag-xavier-nady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}