{"id":570,"date":"2006-04-03T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T14:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-04-03T05:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:43:57","slug":"opening-day-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

MBTN.net officially welcomes the following 12 players to the All-Time Met roster:<\/span><\/p>\n

10 Endy Chavez<\/span><\/span>
\n13 Billy Wagner<\/span><\/span>
\n16 Paul LoDuca<\/span><\/span>
\n18 Jose Valentin<\/span><\/span>
\n21 Carlos Delgado<\/span><\/span>
\n22 Xavier Nady<\/span><\/span>
\n23 Julio Franco<\/span><\/span>
\n27 Darren Oliver<\/span><\/span>
\n34 Jorge Julio<\/span><\/span>
\n40 Brian Bannister<\/span><\/span>
\n50 Duaner Sanchez<\/span><\/span>
\n53 Chad Bradford<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And appearing in new numbers: Coach Manny Acta, in No. 3.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the many fans who reported\u00a0Brian Bannister<\/strong>\u00a0indeed upgraded his uniform to Major League status: He’ll make his MLB debut this week in\u00a0No. 40,\u00a0<\/strong>leaving aside\u00a0No. 61.<\/strong>\u00a0The final composition of the roster came together when veteran\u00a0Darren Oliver 27<\/strong>\u00a0got the nod overPedro Feliciano 39<\/strong>\u00a0to be the bullpen lefty. The decision appears to speak as much to the Mets’ state of mind concerning the starting rotation than it does Oliver or Feliciano. On balance though, we were happy to see the Mets limit themselves to 6 bullpenners and provide a job for sluggy outfielder\u00a0Victor Diaz 20,\u00a0<\/strong>and though our expectations probably aren’t as sky-high as the new TV channel would have you believe, we’re looking forward to a better year, like we do every year at this time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MBTN.net officially welcomes the following 12 players to the All-Time Met roster: 10 Endy Chavez 13 Billy Wagner 16 Paul LoDuca 18 Jose Valentin 21 Carlos Delgado 22 Xavier Nady 23 Julio Franco 27 Darren Oliver 34 Jorge Julio 40 Brian Bannister 50 Duaner Sanchez 53 Chad Bradford And appearing in new numbers: Coach Manny … Continue reading “Opening Day 2006”<\/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":[13],"tags":[703],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}