{"id":645,"date":"2006-12-01T16:08:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=645"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:09:52","slug":"bob-l-miller-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Bob L. Miller Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to eBay fiends\u00a0<strong>Gordon, Pete\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Jason<\/strong>\u00a0who all shot us a copy of a Cubs scorecard up for bid on E-bay from the final series of the 1973 season, confirming long-held suspicions that\u00a0<strong>Bob L. Miller<\/strong>\u00a0wore\u00a0<strong>No. 30<\/strong>\u00a0in his second go-round with the Mets. Miller was an original 1962 Met and the team&#8217;s first wearer of the\u00a0<strong>No. 24\u00a0<\/strong>jersey but was cashiered after a 1-12 season for what one writer cracked was &#8220;half an infield&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0<strong>Tim Harkness and Larry Burright<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; only to go on to a pretty fair career as a reliever for eight more teams and 11 more years before returning to the Mets in a waiver deal for the final two weeks of the 1973 season. By then, his No. 24 belonged to\u00a0<strong>Willie Mays.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the Winter Meetings begin and the possibility of seing the Mets&#8217; first-ever\u00a0<strong>No. 75\u00a0<\/strong>are high, the Mets welcomed back\u00a0<strong>Tom Glavine 47<\/strong>\u00a0and bid farewell to free agent\u00a0<strong>Chris Woodward 4, Cliff Floyd 30, Steve Trachsel 29, Chad Bradford 53 and Roberto Hernandez 39.\u00a0<\/strong>Of these men, we&#8217;ll obviously miss Floyd most of all, whom we wouldn&#8217;t have guessed would grow so Metly when he arrived in the Winter Meetings four years ago. The Mets are also expected to name a third-base coach shortly, seeing as\u00a0<strong>Manny Acta 3<\/strong>\u00a0a few weeks back was named manager of the Washington Nationals. The Mets reportedly are considering\u00a0<strong>Howard Johnson and Gary Carter,\u00a0<\/strong>among others, to take Acta&#8217;s role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to eBay fiends\u00a0Gordon, Pete\u00a0and\u00a0Jason\u00a0who all shot us a copy of a Cubs scorecard up for bid on E-bay from the final series of the 1973 season, confirming long-held suspicions that\u00a0Bob L. Miller\u00a0wore\u00a0No. 30\u00a0in his second go-round with the Mets. Miller was an original 1962 Met and the team&#8217;s first wearer of the\u00a0No. 24\u00a0jersey but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bob L. Miller Returns&#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":[283,214,284,285,288,238,78,287,95,286],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-l-miller","tag-chad-bradford","tag-chris-woodward","tag-cliuff-floyd","tag-larry-burright","tag-roberto-hernandez","tag-steve-trachsel","tag-tim-harkness","tag-tom-glavine","tag-willie-mays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}