{"id":652,"date":"2007-02-05T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=652"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:28:11","slug":"new-roster-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"New Roster Posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span>Thanks to\u00a0<strong>Matt<\/strong>\u00a0for the tip &#8212; Mets.com has posted a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/team\/roster_40man.jsp?c_id=nym\">new roster page<\/a><\/strong>, assigning numerals to the\u00a0<strong>40 men on the 40-man.<\/strong>\u00a0Though these lists have proven unreliable in the past, they&#8217;re usually fun and sometimes surprising. Right off the bat, we&#8217;re surprised to see\u00a0<strong>Damion Easley<\/strong>\u00a0be assigned\u00a0<strong>No. 3\u00a0<\/strong>when he&#8217;s more often associated with\u00a0<strong>No. 2<\/strong>\u00a0(even though the latter belongs to\u00a0<strong>Sandy Alomar<\/strong>); and\u00a0<strong>Scott Schoeneweis\u00a0<\/strong>listed in<strong>\u00a036\u00a0<\/strong>rather than his customary\u00a0<strong>60.<\/strong>\u00a0We wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see either change before the bell rings on the new season.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Other new guys and their alleged numbers:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Jon Adkins 39<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Adam Bostick 72<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Ambiorix Burgos 40<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Jorge Sosa 29 (goodbye, Steve Trachsel)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Jason Vargas 43<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Ruben Gotay 6 (poifict!)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Carlos Gomez 61<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Ben Johnson 4<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>David Newhan 17<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Points of interest in Nonroster Inviteeland:<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Aaron Sele 35<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Mike DiFelice 30 (this would be his 3rd number in 3 calls for the Mets)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Ruben Sierra 19 (yes, Ruben Sierra)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to\u00a0Matt\u00a0for the tip &#8212; Mets.com has posted a\u00a0new roster page, assigning numerals to the\u00a040 men on the 40-man.\u00a0Though these lists have proven unreliable in the past, they&#8217;re usually fun and sometimes surprising. Right off the bat, we&#8217;re surprised to see\u00a0Damion Easley\u00a0be assigned\u00a0No. 3\u00a0when he&#8217;s more often associated with\u00a0No. 2\u00a0(even though the latter belongs to\u00a0Sandy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Roster Posted&#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":[296,289,278,298,284,281,280,187,297,299],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-sele","tag-ambiorix-burgos","tag-ben-johnson","tag-carlos-gomez","tag-chris-woodward","tag-damion-easley","tag-jason-vargas","tag-mike-difelice","tag-ruben-gotay","tag-scott-schoeneweis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}