{"id":590,"date":"2006-07-31T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=590"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:12:19","slug":"deadline-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"

As opposed to say, 2004, the Mets at least didn’t mean to get worse at the deadline this year, though it was certainly bad news on the doorstep to learn that rubbery reliever\u00a0Duaner Sanchez 50\u00a0<\/strong>would miss the rest of the year as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Miami; increasing any exisiting pressure they felt to do something about the bullpen, while dialing back any temptation to make\u00a0Aaron Heilman<\/strong>\u00a0a part of a bigger deal for a pitcher, left-handed pinch-hitter or anything else that might help come October. So instead the Mets swapped fungible outfielder\u00a0Xavier Nady 22<\/strong>\u00a0to the Pirates for Proven Veteran Setup Guy\u00a0Roberto Hernandez,<\/strong>\u00a0along with\u00a0Oliver Perez,<\/strong>\u00a0who not too long ago, ranked among the most promising young left arms in the game.<\/p>\n

In Hernandez, the Mets acquired a familiar name, but unless there’s some serious swapping afoot, he’ll have a different look now that the Mets have given his\u00a0No. 39<\/strong>\u00a0jersey to\u00a0Pedro Feliciano,<\/strong>\u00a0himself a returning Met bullpenner in a new jersey. We suppose it’s possible Feliciano gives 39 back to Hernandez (whose nameplate by the way ought to read R. HERNANDEZ in order to distinguish him from teammates A. HERNANDEZ and O. HERNANDEZ) while Feliciano gives his former\u00a0No. 55<\/strong>another try, but that would require bullpen coach\u00a0Tom Nieto<\/strong>\u00a0to take a new jersey too. We’ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

Perez, who used to routinely strike out 10 guys a night, is likely ticketed for the minors but wore\u00a0No. 59<\/strong>\u00a0with the Pirates.<\/p>\n

However it works out, we’re sorry to see Nady go — his swing was ferocious and we’ll always be indebted to his sizzling hot start — and very very sorry to learn of Sanchez’ misfortune. On the positive side, it appears\u00a0Lastings Milledge<\/strong>\u00a0will get another opportunity — with our team — as the farm system survived the gutting so many columnists and pretend Internet journalists like to say is only a matter of time now that Omar’s in charge.<\/p>\n

Oh, and we’re 14 games up. We don’t need\u00a0Barry Zito<\/strong>\u00a0to protect that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As opposed to say, 2004, the Mets at least didn’t mean to get worse at the deadline this year, though it was certainly bad news on the doorstep to learn that rubbery reliever\u00a0Duaner Sanchez 50\u00a0would miss the rest of the year as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Miami; increasing any … Continue reading “Deadline Terror”<\/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":[108,213,211,237,238,209],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-heilman","tag-duaner-sanchez","tag-lastings-milledge","tag-oliver-perez","tag-roberto-hernandez","tag-xavier-nady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}