{"id":739,"date":"2007-07-30T18:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=739"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:37:48","slug":"hes-no-1-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s No. 1 (Maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we\u2019ll have to wait until tonight\u2019s game in Milwaukee to see what number new second baseman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\"><strong>Luis Castillo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0alights in, though we\u2019d be very surprised if it\u2019s not his familiar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/1\"><strong>No. 1.<\/strong><\/a>Castillo was acquired yesterday for two minor leaguers with dubious futures, so we can\u2019t get too excited over Castillo, a chubby slap-hitter, especially while Ruben Gotay 6 iseems to have so much thunder in his bat. That said we\u2019re on board with the upgrade in defense and the stability Castillo ought to bring to the lineup everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is the exciterment too high over the fact that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/beltran-carlos\"><strong>Carlos Beltran 15<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will be out of action for another 2 or 3 weeks (maybe 4). (Maybe 5). (Who knows). That the Phillies and Braves have been very aggressive at the deadline so far seem to indicate they\u2019re ready to fight this thing to end. Still waiting to hear how the Mets will work out the roster, and there\u2019s still 4 more hours to make a non-waiver trade, so updates soon.<\/p>\n<p>Paul LoDuca\u2019s Saturday injury and the recent demotion of Sandsy Alomar Jr. meant the Mets on Sunday recalled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/difelice-mike\"><strong>Mike DiFelice<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the umpteenth time in the last three years (Umpteen = 4). The news here is that DiDelice is in his third uniform number\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/9\">(<strong>9<\/strong>)\u00a0<\/a>after previous stints in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/33\"><strong>33<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(2005) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/6\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2006).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/pelfrey-mike\"><strong>Mike Pelfrey 34\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was sent down to make room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we\u2019ll have to wait until tonight\u2019s game in Milwaukee to see what number new second baseman\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0alights in, though we\u2019d be very surprised if it\u2019s not his familiar\u00a0No. 1.Castillo was acquired yesterday for two minor leaguers with dubious futures, so we can\u2019t get too excited over Castillo, a chubby slap-hitter, especially while Ruben &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He&#8217;s No. 1 (Maybe)&#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":[170,320,187],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-luis-castillo","tag-mike-difelice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}