{"id":796,"date":"2007-11-15T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=796"},"modified":"2013-11-30T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:57:52","slug":"caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today are expected to announce they\u2019ve reached an agreement to keep reserve catcher\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castro-ramon\">Ramon Castro<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/11\"><strong>No. 11<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>jersey for the next two years (though the agreement requires a physical, so you never know). We may also learn soon whether\u00a0<strong>Yorvit Torrealba\u00a0<\/strong>(spellcheck wants to call him\u00a0<em>\u201cOrbit Terrible\u201d<\/em>) accepts an offer to be Castro\u2019s partner. The Torrealba bid may in the end resemble the Ramon Hernandez\/Begie Molina teases of a few years ago, where the Mets dangled some cash in front of the free agent catchers but gave them a short window to decide: When the players delayed, the Mets swiftly pursued\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/loduca-paul\"><strong>Paul LoDuca<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the trade market. So if Torrealba is truly en route, we ought to know soon. And if not, let\u2019s hope the team won\u2019t overlook such trade targets as the Diamondbacks\u2019\u00a0<strong>Miguel Montero,\u00a0<\/strong>who looks like a hitter and as a lefty, would make a great platoonmate for Castro.<\/p>\n<p>We may also know soon enough whether the Mets\u2019 unofficial mothballing of the<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/8\">\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/8\">No. 8<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>jersey will continue, as Torrealba currently sports that number for the Rockies. The Mets have not issued No. 8 since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/carter-gary\"><strong>Gary Carter\u2019s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0induction to the Hall of Fame. Castro\u2019s return, by the way, would represent yet another two years of No. 11 \u2014 a jersey that has appeared on at least one Met player in all but three seasons (1967, 1968 and 2002) in Mets history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets today are expected to announce they\u2019ve reached an agreement to keep reserve catcher\u00a0Ramon Castro\u00a0in the\u00a0No. 11\u00a0jersey for the next two years (though the agreement requires a physical, so you never know). We may also learn soon whether\u00a0Yorvit Torrealba\u00a0(spellcheck wants to call him\u00a0\u201cOrbit Terrible\u201d) accepts an offer to be Castro\u2019s partner. The Torrealba bid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caught&#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":[218,174,334],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paul-loduca","tag-ramon-castro","tag-yorvit-toreabla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}