{"id":540,"date":"2005-11-22T04:27:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T04:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=540"},"modified":"2013-11-30T04:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:29:22","slug":"delgado-not-wilson-carlos-to-the-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Delgado (Not Wilson &#8230; Carlos) to the Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today announced they would acquire slugging first baseman<br \/>\n<strong>Carlos\u00a0Delgado\u00a0<\/strong>and 7 million U.S. Dollars from the Marlins, giving up promising<br \/>\nyoung hitter\u00a0<strong>Mike Jacobs 27<\/strong>\u00a0and alleged phenom pitcher<br \/>\n<strong>Yusmeiro\u00a0Petit<\/strong>\u00a0in return. That this is a dynamite deal for the Mets should be<br \/>\nobvious: Delgado fills the need for another threatening bat in the lineup<br \/>\nand they didn&#8217;t need to cough up\u00a0<strong>Lastings Milledge<\/strong>\u00a0to get him. This<br \/>\nof course isn&#8217;t the first time the Mets have picked up luxury goods on<br \/>\nthe cheap in a Marlin liquidation: The 1998 sell-off produced<br \/>\n<strong>Dennis\u00a0Cook 27, Al Leiter 22 and Mike Piazza 31,<\/strong>\u00a0all key players in the last<br \/>\nrespectable Met era.<\/p>\n<p>Considering\u00a0the strenous attempt to land Delgado last off-season, we expect the Mets\u00a0will provide Delgado with all the comforts he deems necessary, which means<br \/>\n<strong>Kaz\u00a0Matsui 25<\/strong>\u00a0might find a new jersey hanging in his locker this spring<br \/>\n(presuming it says &#8220;Mets&#8221; on the front, that is). We argued back in &#8217;03<br \/>\nthat Matsui should have been issued 77 and would still like to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking\u00a0of Marlin giveaways, the Mets quietly provided X-Marlin lefty reliever<br \/>\n<strong>Matt\u00a0Perisho<\/strong>\u00a0with a minor league contract and invite to Spring Training.<br \/>\nPerisho wore\u00a0<strong>46<\/strong>\u00a0with the Marlins last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today announced they would acquire slugging first baseman Carlos\u00a0Delgado\u00a0and 7 million U.S. Dollars from the Marlins, giving up promising young hitter\u00a0Mike Jacobs 27\u00a0and alleged phenom pitcher Yusmeiro\u00a0Petit\u00a0in return. That this is a dynamite deal for the Mets should be obvious: Delgado fills the need for another threatening bat in the lineup and they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delgado (Not Wilson &#8230; Carlos) to the Mets&#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":[210,135,211,142],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-delgado","tag-kaz-matsui","tag-lastings-milledge","tag-mike-jacobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}