{"id":580,"date":"2006-05-24T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=580"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:04:04","slug":"julio-for-duque-soler-up-bell-back-lima-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Julio for Duque; Soler Up; Bell Back; Lima Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Updates over a busy few weeks &#8212; Cuban defectee\u00a0<strong>Alay Soler\u00a0<\/strong>makes his Major League debut tonight wearing<strong>\u00a0No. 59.\u00a0<\/strong>Soler was recalled after Omar Minaya designated a merciful end to the\u00a0<strong>Jose Lima <\/strong>Experiment.Soler becomes only the second Met ever to wear\u00a0<strong>No. 59,<\/strong>\u00a0and the first since\u00a0<strong>Ed Lynch\u00a0<\/strong>made his Major League debut, in 1980.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Also today, the Mets traded struggling reliever\u00a0<strong>Jorge Julio<\/strong>\u00a0to Arizona for ancient ex-Yankee<strong>Orlando &#8220;El Duque&#8221; Hernandez.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We assume El Duque will dress in his familiar No. 26 &#8212; currently available &#8212; when he arrives; until then, the team has recalled Norfolk yo-yo\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell 19.<\/strong>\u00a0This manuever may well serve to patch up the butt-end of a rotation sore with injuries, and Julio&#8217;s brief stay in Flushing won&#8217;t likely be missed, but it hardly makes the\u00a0<strong>Kris Benson<\/strong>\u00a0trade any less mysterious.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>In between Lima&#8217;s whacking May 20 and Soler&#8217;s recall, the Mets enjoyed a phantom appearance from reliever\u00a0<strong>Anderson Garcia,<\/strong>\u00a0who wasn&#8217;t used and summarily returned to Norfolk. Rosters list Garcia as being assigned\u00a0<strong>No. 58<\/strong>\u00a0but that hasn&#8217;t been eyewitnessed by us at least. Happy to hear from those who might confirm it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>On May 9,\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell 19<\/strong>\u00a0was recalled as Fortunato was sent down. Days later, May 12, Bell was sent down as journeyman auditonee\u00a0<strong>Jeremi Gonzalez<\/strong>\u00a0was recalled. Gonzalez suited up in\u00a0<strong>No. 32.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates over a busy few weeks &#8212; Cuban defectee\u00a0Alay Soler\u00a0makes his Major League debut tonight wearing\u00a0No. 59.\u00a0Soler was recalled after Omar Minaya designated a merciful end to the\u00a0Jose Lima Experiment.Soler becomes only the second Met ever to wear\u00a0No. 59,\u00a0and the first since\u00a0Ed Lynch\u00a0made his Major League debut, in 1980. Also today, the Mets traded struggling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Julio for Duque; Soler Up; Bell Back; Lima Out&#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":[228,231,230,160,232,222,154,229],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alay-soler","tag-anderson-garcia","tag-ed-lynch","tag-heath-bell","tag-jeremi-gonzalez","tag-jose-lima","tag-kris-benson","tag-orlando-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}