Can\u2019t take a day off without missing a few transactions anymore.<\/p>\n
OK, indeed it was\u00a0Chip Ambres 36<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0designated for assingment last week when\u00a0Damian Easley 3<\/a><\/strong>returned for the bereavement list. Then after another poor outing Thursday, the Mets demoted\u00a0Bazooka Joe Smith 35<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with the idea of giving him some rest. In his place the Mets recalled\u00a0Jon Adkins,\u00a0<\/strong>the reliever acquired in the so-far lopsided Heath Bell trade. Adkins was assigned\u00a0No. 39<\/strong>and debuted on Friday.<\/p>\n Also debuting Friday, it seemed, was some guy called\u00a0Moises Alou<\/strong>\u00a0who wore\u00a0<\/a>No. 18<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Alou\u2019s promotion from the disabled list, where he\u2019d been since the late 1970s, accompanied a return to the minors for catcher\u00a0Sandy Alomar Jr. 19<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0but also, news that\u00a0Carlos Beltran 15<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>would sit indefinitely with one of his mysterious injuries \u2014 an injury he was apparently still feeling Saturday when\u00a0Willie Randolph<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>torched his entire 3-man bench and looked like a complete fool pinch-running and pinch-hitting 40-year-old pitchers while falling a run short against a guy making his major league debut.<\/p>\n The day-night debacle also required the Mets to recall\u00a0Mike Pelfrey 34,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and demote\u00a0Anderson Hernandez 1<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>who arrived after the crippling of\u00a0Jose Valentin 22.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Pelfrey was evidently on his way back down to AAA but who is recalled becomes an issue now that\u00a0Paul LoDuca<\/strong><\/a>\u00a016 may be injured.<\/p>\n Oh, and the trade deadline is Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can\u2019t take a day off without missing a few transactions anymore. OK, indeed it was\u00a0Chip Ambres 36\u00a0designated for assingment last week when\u00a0Damian Easley 3returned for the bereavement list. Then after another poor outing Thursday, the Mets demoted\u00a0Bazooka Joe Smith 35\u00a0with the idea of giving him some rest. In his place the Mets recalled\u00a0Jon Adkins,\u00a0the reliever … Continue reading “Ugh”<\/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":[319,304,279,282,167],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chip-ambres","tag-joe-smith","tag-jon-adkins","tag-sandy-alomar","tag-willie-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}