{"id":649,"date":"2007-01-18T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=649"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:18:44","slug":"catching-up-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0<strong>Cliff Floyd&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0departure to Chicago, it may be interesting to see whether\u00a0<strong>Willie Randolph\u00a0<\/strong>alights in the now-vacant\u00a0<strong>No. 30<\/strong>\u00a0or stays with the\u00a0<strong>12<\/strong>\u00a0he&#8217;s worn as a Met player and manager (in his playing days,\u00a0<strong>30<\/strong>\u00a0belonged to\u00a0<strong>Mel Stottlemeyer;\u00a0<\/strong>Willie was 30 with the MF Yankees most of his career).<\/p>\n<p>Alert MBTN reader\u00a0<strong>Richard<\/strong>\u00a0informs us that Mets.com is offering the\u00a0<strong>Jose Valentin<\/strong>\u00a0jersey in\u00a0<strong>No. 22<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; the switch from\u00a0<strong>18<\/strong>\u00a0we expected following the\u00a0<strong>Moises Alou<\/strong>\u00a0signing earlier this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Hello to new arrivals and\/or spring auditionees\u00a0<strong>Scott Schoeneweis, Aaron Sele, Jorge Sosa and David Newhan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Schoeneweis falls one letter short of the all-time Met record for characters on a name plate (<strong>ISRINGHAUSEN,\u00a0<\/strong>with 12 still leads the pack), if his form holds true the veteran loogy would become the first player in Met history to wear\u00a0<strong>No. 60.\u00a0<\/strong>We&#8217;re kind of shocked to see him get a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The well traveled Sele, who signed a minor-league deal, has worn\u00a0<strong>30, 34,<\/strong>\u00a0and last year with Los Angeles,\u00a0<strong>41.<\/strong>\u00a0Sosa, who was pretty good for the Braves in &#8217;05 and horrendous with them last year, is yet another former\u00a0<strong>No. 34.<\/strong>\u00a0We last saw the 34 jersey on\u00a0<strong>Mike Pelfrey,<\/strong>\u00a0who just might make the starting rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Newhan, often described as a\u00a0<strong>Joe McEwing<\/strong>\u00a0type,\u00a0 wore\u00a0<strong>No. 11<\/strong>\u00a0with the Orioles, as McEwing had in his last years as a Met. Eleven currently belongs to reserve catcher\u00a0<strong>Ramon Castro,<\/strong>\u00a0who was re-signed recently along with\u00a0<strong>Endy Chavez 10; Duaner Sanchez 50;<\/strong>\u00a0and, to another minor-league deal,\u00a0<strong>the immortal Mike DiFelice.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0Cliff Floyd&#8217;s\u00a0departure to Chicago, it may be interesting to see whether\u00a0Willie Randolph\u00a0alights in the now-vacant\u00a0No. 30\u00a0or stays with the\u00a012\u00a0he&#8217;s worn as a Met player and manager (in his playing days,\u00a030\u00a0belonged to\u00a0Mel Stottlemeyer;\u00a0Willie was 30 with the MF Yankees most of his career). Alert MBTN reader\u00a0Richard\u00a0informs us that Mets.com is offering the\u00a0Jose Valentin\u00a0jersey in\u00a0No. 22\u00a0&#8212; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching Up&#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":[296,98,292,295,219,294,293,167],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-sele","tag-cliff-floyd","tag-david-newhan","tag-jorge-sosa","tag-jose-valentin","tag-mel-stottlemeyer","tag-scott-schoenewies","tag-willie-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}