{"id":636,"date":"2006-09-05T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=636"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:56:49","slug":"humbers-number-and-willie-montanez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Humber&#8217;s Number (and Willie Montanez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As threatened, the Mets recalled the six men below in time for yesterday&#8217;s rainout. New arrivals\u00a0<strong>Kelly Stinnett<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Phillip Humber<\/strong>\u00a0were dressed in Nos\u00a0<strong>36 and 49,<\/strong>\u00a0respectively. (Thanks to readers Lou and Michael for the updates). Both numbers have been issued previously this season:\u00a0<strong>Henry Owens<\/strong>\u00a0wore 36 during his brief callup and 49 belonged briefly to\u00a0<strong>Roberto Hernandez\u00a0<\/strong>before he could pry\u00a0<strong>39<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong>Pedro Feliciano.<\/strong>\u00a0In addition to being the digits favored by knuckleballers, 49 tends to be a relief pitcher&#8217;s number for the Mets &#8212; you have to go back until 1984 and\u00a0<strong>Walt Terrell<\/strong>to find a regular starter who wore it, though Humber for the short term looks destined for spot-starts and relief work anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Stinnett, who wore\u00a0<strong>33<\/strong>\u00a0for the Mets in 1995, becomes the latest member of the\u00a0<strong>two-time Met club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is excerpted from a note from reader Rory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Willie Monta\u00f1ez &#8212; I know the \u00f1 is definitely part of his family name, but I&#8217;m not entirely sure whether the team sewed the tilde on too. Somebody told me that the Mets only started sewing names on their uniforms in 1979, and so that left only part of that season where Willie could have sported a tilde as a Met. Are there any pictures to prove it one way or the other?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though we doubt we&#8217;d find a tilde if we found a picture (the &#8217;79 Mets, like this site, were lazy with that kinda thing), we haven&#8217;t found a picture. Can anyone help?<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As threatened, the Mets recalled the six men below in time for yesterday&#8217;s rainout. New arrivals\u00a0Kelly Stinnett\u00a0and\u00a0Phillip Humber\u00a0were dressed in Nos\u00a036 and 49,\u00a0respectively. (Thanks to readers Lou and Michael for the updates). Both numbers have been issued previously this season:\u00a0Henry Owens\u00a0wore 36 during his brief callup and 49 belonged briefly to\u00a0Roberto Hernandez\u00a0before he could pry\u00a039\u00a0from\u00a0Pedro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Humber&#8217;s Number (and Willie Montanez)&#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":[239,266,87,178,238,268,267],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-henry-owens","tag-kelly-stinneytt","tag-pedro-feliciano","tag-phillip-humber","tag-roberto-hernandez","tag-walt-terrell","tag-willie-montanez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}