{"id":879,"date":"2008-03-25T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=879"},"modified":"2013-12-01T01:26:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:26:19","slug":"unregistered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Unregistered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to pontificate upon the chances of\u00a0<strong>Steven Register<\/strong>\u00a0retaining\u00a0<strong>No. 61<\/strong>\u00a0or switching to something more dignified when word came he&#8217;d been waived by the Mets. Hopefully, the opportunity exists to work out a deal with Colorado that would allow the Mets to keep Register in the organization free of the onerous (for the Mets, at least) provisions of Rule 5.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news, I believe, if you&#8217;re a fan of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/smith-joe\"><strong>Joe Smith,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0who like Register, seems groomed for a role I&#8217;ll call\u00a0<strong>GUPPY<\/strong>\u00a0(GroUndball Pitcher, Perplexing deliverY &#8212; alright, needs work). Smith however can be safely stashed at AAA so it&#8217;s no lock he surfaces, at least not right away.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, looks as if suspicion over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sanchez-duaner\"><strong>Duaner Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; durability gives a shot to his hard-throwing nonroster counterpart,\u00a0<strong>Brian Stokes,<\/strong>\u00a0at least, to start the year. As for the No. 5 starter, I&#8217;m as disappointed as the next guy in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/pelfrey-mike\">Mike Pelfrey,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0maybe more, but I&#8217;d give him all the rope he needs. It&#8217;s not like an injured Orlando Hernandez has a whole lot of upside any longer.<\/p>\n<p>* In case you didn&#8217;t see it, MLB.com&#8217;s Marty Noble today ran his annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20080325&amp;content_id=2456823&amp;vkey=spt2008news&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=nym\" target=\"_blank\">Port St. Lucie christening story<\/a>, a sure sign Spring Training is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>* Don&#8217;t forget you&#8217;re invited to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/book\">MBTN\u00a0<\/a>Launch Party<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoutnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stout NYC<\/a>, April 6, 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to pontificate upon the chances of\u00a0Steven Register\u00a0retaining\u00a0No. 61\u00a0or switching to something more dignified when word came he&#8217;d been waived by the Mets. Hopefully, the opportunity exists to work out a deal with Colorado that would allow the Mets to keep Register in the organization free of the onerous (for the Mets, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unregistered&#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":[339,213,304],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-stokes","tag-duaner-sanchez","tag-joe-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}