{"id":817,"date":"2008-01-29T21:24:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=817"},"modified":"2013-11-30T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T21:26:22","slug":"eric-valent-no-longer-greatest-57-in-mets-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Eric Valent No Longer Greatest 57 in Mets History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/valent.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"153\" \/>Yes, so you may have heard the Mets went and acquired this\u00a0<strong>Johan Santana<\/strong>\u00a0fellow from the Twins for a package of four prospects: Outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/gomez-carlos\"><strong>Carlos Gomez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and pitchers\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/humber-phillip\">Phillip Humber,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Kevin Mulvey<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Deolis Guerra.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And although the Mets will assuredly sign to Santana to an absurd contract extension, this deal right now looks remarkable for how little blood was spilled. Gomez, though he showed flashes of ability and a &#8220;good baseball body,&#8221; proved in a limited engagement last season that he probably needs a year at AAA. Mulvey looks to be midddling starter material, not to belittle the value of averageness from young pitchers. Humber and Guerra are lottery tickets: Humber because he still needs to regain his stuff following Tommy John surgery; and Guerra because he&#8217;s in A ball and anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p>And although we suggested the Mets could use Santana to doubly erase Tom Glavine&#8217;s memory by dressing him in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/47\"><strong>No. 47,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0we&#8217;re reasonably certain he&#8217;ll alight in his familiar\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/57\">57\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>where indeed, he&#8217;s all but certain to overtake cannon fodder starter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/roach-jason\"><strong>Jason Roach<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and determined scrubeenie\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/valent-eric\">Eric Valent\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>as Best. 57. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, so you may have heard the Mets went and acquired this\u00a0Johan Santana\u00a0fellow from the Twins for a package of four prospects: Outfielder\u00a0Carlos Gomez\u00a0and pitchers\u00a0Phillip Humber,\u00a0Kevin Mulvey, and\u00a0Deolis Guerra. And although the Mets will assuredly sign to Santana to an absurd contract extension, this deal right now looks remarkable for how little blood was spilled. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eric Valent No Longer Greatest 57 in Mets History&#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":[298,149,335,178],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-gomez","tag-eric-valent","tag-johan-santana","tag-phillip-humber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}