{"id":836,"date":"2008-02-13T21:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=836"},"modified":"2013-11-30T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T21:47:33","slug":"they-blinded-me-with-saenz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"They Blinded Me with Saenz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets this evening announced they have invited greying, heavyset ex-Dodger\u00a0<strong>Olmedo Saenz\u00a0<\/strong>to spring training with the idea he could become the right-handed power threat and backup to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/delgado-carlos\"><strong>Carlos Delgado<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the lineup would seem to call out for. Saenz last appeared in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/8\">No. 8\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Also invited to camp is veteran washout\u00a0<strong>Tony Armas Jr.<\/strong>, who&#8217;ll compete for a rotation slot and secretly root for injuries until its time to report to New Orleans. Armas most recently appeared in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/36\">No. 36<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with the Nationals and could easily appear in it again given\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/collazo-willie\">Willie Collazo<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s own grip on a roster slot.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Mets.com reports Wednesday that Armas will suit up in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/44\"><strong>No. 44<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks Jason\u00a0 for the updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets this evening announced they have invited greying, heavyset ex-Dodger\u00a0Olmedo Saenz\u00a0to spring training with the idea he could become the right-handed power threat and backup to\u00a0Carlos Delgado\u00a0the lineup would seem to call out for. Saenz last appeared in\u00a0No. 8\u00a0with Los Angeles. Also invited to camp is veteran washout\u00a0Tony Armas Jr., who&#8217;ll compete for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Blinded Me with Saenz&#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":[343,328],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tony-armas-jr","tag-willie-collazo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}