{"id":846,"date":"2008-02-22T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=846"},"modified":"2013-11-30T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T22:01:47","slug":"flying-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Flying Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;d been expecting to see, hitting coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/johnson-howard\"><strong>Howard Johnson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has cashiered\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/52\">No. 52<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and returned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/20\"><strong>No. 20<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0jersey he last wore as a Met player 15 years ago. Bullpen coach\u00a0<strong>Guy Conti<\/strong>\u00a0in the meantime switches from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/56\">56<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to 52, allowing bullpen pitcher\u00a0<strong>Juan Lopez\u00a0<\/strong>to take 56. We hadn&#8217;t nailed down Lopez previously.<\/p>\n<p>Bullpen catcher\u00a0<strong>Dave Racaniello<\/strong>\u00a0in the meantime was spotted wearing<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/54\"><strong>54<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0as noted below, and catching instructor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alomar-sandy-jr\"><strong>Sandy Alomar Jr.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>has slipped into\u00a0<strong>No. 90<\/strong>. These changes have been added to the handy<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/2008roster\">clip-n-save Spring Training Roster<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0above. Many thanks to Bryan, David, Chris and other commenters for the updates.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks also to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsgrrl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MetsGrrl<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for pointing out how difficult it was to get in touch &#8212; turns out I&#8217;d mistakenly &#8220;turned off&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/contact\"><strong>contact\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>link. Duh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;d been expecting to see, hitting coach\u00a0Howard Johnson\u00a0has cashiered\u00a0No. 52\u00a0and returned to the\u00a0No. 20\u00a0jersey he last wore as a Met player 15 years ago. Bullpen coach\u00a0Guy Conti\u00a0in the meantime switches from\u00a056\u00a0to 52, allowing bullpen pitcher\u00a0Juan Lopez\u00a0to take 56. We hadn&#8217;t nailed down Lopez previously. Bullpen catcher\u00a0Dave Racaniello\u00a0in the meantime was spotted wearing54,\u00a0as noted below, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flying Coach&#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":[345,182,290,344,346],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-racaniello","tag-guy-conti","tag-howard-johnson","tag-juan-lopez","tag-sandy-alomar-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}