{"id":548,"date":"2006-01-04T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=548"},"modified":"2013-11-30T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T14:34:26","slug":"new-year-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"New Year Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met fans were wondering again today whether\u00a0<strong>Omar Minaya<\/strong>\u00a0can be trusted at a swap meet, giving up underappreciated starter\u00a0<strong>Jae Seo 26<\/strong>, along with lefty reliever<strong>Tim Hamulack 46,<\/strong>\u00a0in a trade for goggle-wearing\u00a0<strong>Duaner Sanchez\u00a0<\/strong>and his sidearm-throwing teammate,\u00a0<strong>Steve Schmoll,<\/strong>\u00a0both righthanded relievers for the Dodgers. We wish the best of luck to Seo, whose frequent bobs between New York and Norfolk resulted in three uniform numbers (he also wore\u00a0<strong>38<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>40<\/strong>). In case you&#8217;re also wondering, Sanchez wore\u00a0<strong>No. 50<\/strong>\u00a0and Schmoll\u00a0<strong>No. 40<\/strong>\u00a0in Chavez Latrine last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also invited veteran second baseman Bret Boone to camp with a minor league deal. Boone was released twice last year but according to Omar &#8220;knows how to win,&#8221; and will challenge incumbent\u00a0<strong>Kaz Matsui\u00a0<\/strong>for a job. Boone most often has worn\u00a0<strong>No. 29.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catching up with more winter moves, the Mets on Dec. 28 agreed to a one-year deal for freaky underhanded relief pitcher\u00a0<strong>Chad Bradford,<\/strong>\u00a0a hero of\u00a0<em>Moneyball<\/em>\u00a0and most recently, a patient with the Red Sox team doctors. He wore\u00a0<strong>No. 53<\/strong>\u00a0for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 23, former Met outfield prospect\u00a0<strong>Endy Chavez<\/strong>\u00a0was signed to a one-year deal. Chavez wore<strong>No. 19<\/strong>\u00a0with Expo-Nationals and\u00a0<strong>47<\/strong>\u00a0when he was traded to Philadelphia late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also released maddening lefthander\u00a0<strong>Kaz Ishii 23,\u00a0<\/strong>and invited journeymen\u00a0<strong>Darren Oliver, Jose Parra and Pedro Feliciano<\/strong>\u00a0to camp. We last saw Parra and Feliciano in Met uniforms\u00a0<strong>46 and 55,<\/strong>\u00a0respectively, in 2004 (unless we vacationed in Japan in 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met fans were wondering again today whether\u00a0Omar Minaya\u00a0can be trusted at a swap meet, giving up underappreciated starter\u00a0Jae Seo 26, along with lefty relieverTim Hamulack 46,\u00a0in a trade for goggle-wearing\u00a0Duaner Sanchez\u00a0and his sidearm-throwing teammate,\u00a0Steve Schmoll,\u00a0both righthanded relievers for the Dodgers. We wish the best of luck to Seo, whose frequent bobs between New York and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Year Updates&#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":[214,216,213,215,84,151,135,87],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chad-bradford","tag-darren-oliver","tag-duaner-sanchez","tag-endy-chavez","tag-jae-seo","tag-jose-parra","tag-kaz-matsui","tag-pedro-feliciano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}