{"id":643,"date":"2006-11-20T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=643"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:07:56","slug":"skip-to-alou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Skip to Alou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick update on the first Met Uni Controversy of the 06 offseason: Veteran outfielder\u00a0<strong>Moises Alou<\/strong>signed a 1-year deal today and was presented with the\u00a0<strong>No. 18\u00a0<\/strong>jersey. That number belonged last season to\u00a0<strong>Jose Valentin,<\/strong>\u00a0who was also re-signed recently. Newsday relates that Valentin willingly surrendered the digits after learning who asked for them: &#8220;You tell him he&#8217;s got the number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guess here is that Valentin resurfaces in\u00a0<strong>No. 22,<\/strong>\u00a0a number that last season belonged to\u00a0<strong>Xavier Nady<\/strong>\u00a0then to\u00a0<strong>Michael Tucker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other news the Mets dealt Nov. 15 for outfielder\u00a0<strong>Ben Johnson (No. 4)\u00a0<\/strong>and pitcher\u00a0<strong>Jon Adkins<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(No. 57)<\/strong>\u00a0of the Padres: Going to Petco are relievers\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell 19<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Royce Ring 43.\u00a0<\/strong>Should Johnson make the roster, he could remain in No. 4 since it doesn&#8217;t appear\u00a0<strong>Chris Woodward\u00a0<\/strong>is coming back. The Mets further cleared their roster of homegrown relief prospects by sending a pair of hard-throwers,\u00a0<strong>Henry Owens\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Matt Lindstrom,<\/strong>\u00a0to Florida for two lefty projects:\u00a0<strong>Jason Vargas<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Adam Bostick.\u00a0<\/strong>Owens made a brief appearance for the Mets last season wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 36;\u00a0<\/strong>we might have smelled a deal cooking in back in September when the Mets issued that number to a backup catcher,\u00a0<strong>Kelly Stinnett.\u00a0<\/strong>Vargas, who wore\u00a0<strong>No. 56\u00a0<\/strong>for the Marlins last season is the guy with the best chance to make something of himself though he hasn&#8217;t done so yet. Bostick has yet to crack the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Vetejourneyutilityman\u00a0<strong>Damion Easley<\/strong>\u00a0was added as a free agent. Easley&#8217;s been everywhere, man, but most recently in Arizona and Florida, he was wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 2.\u00a0<\/strong>That number currently belongs to coach\u00a0<strong>Sandy Alomar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick update on the first Met Uni Controversy of the 06 offseason: Veteran outfielder\u00a0Moises Alousigned a 1-year deal today and was presented with the\u00a0No. 18\u00a0jersey. That number belonged last season to\u00a0Jose Valentin,\u00a0who was also re-signed recently. Newsday relates that Valentin willingly surrendered the digits after learning who asked for them: &#8220;You tell him he&#8217;s got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skip to Alou&#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":[278,281,160,239,280,279,248,258,277,122,282,209],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ben-johnson","tag-damion-easley","tag-heath-bell","tag-henry-owens","tag-jason-vargas","tag-jon-adkins","tag-kelly-stinnett","tag-michael-tucker","tag-moises-alou","tag-royce-ring","tag-sandy-alomar","tag-xavier-nady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}