{"id":908,"date":"2008-04-02T02:07:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T02:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=908"},"modified":"2013-12-01T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:09:43","slug":"its-not-even-the-all-star-break-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Even the All-Star Break Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/45.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-131\" alt=\"45\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/45.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m almost too cranky to post this but seems that Pedro\u2019s shocking injury will lead him to the disabled list and trigger the first roster move of the young season. Reports this morning say\u00a0<strong>Nelson Figueroa<\/strong>\u00a0will be recalled and ought to get at least one turn in the rotation before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hernandez-orlando\"><strong>Orlando Hernandez\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>is eligible to come off the DL \u2013 provided he\u2019s healthy. Figueroa suited up this spring in No. 27, most recently belonging to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/gomez-carlos\">Carlos Gomez<\/a><\/strong>, hero of the Twins\u2019 opener.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez of course was badly miscast as\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/27\">27<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and looks sleeker and more confident in 22.\u00a0<strong>Lastings Milledge<\/strong>\u00a0in typical overconfidence kept No. 44 and\u00a0<strong>Paul LoDuca<\/strong>\u00a0is still wearing 16 in Washington. I think of 27 as a pitcher\u2019s number \u2014 it was\u00a0<strong>Swan, Cardwell, Oliver, Harnisch<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 and now Nelson Figueroa. I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll see\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/45\">No. 45<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0again in time potential employers he\u2019ll be a free agent this offseason but until then we&#8217;ll just have to do without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m almost too cranky to post this but seems that Pedro\u2019s shocking injury will lead him to the disabled list and trigger the first roster move of the young season. Reports this morning say\u00a0Nelson Figueroa\u00a0will be recalled and ought to get at least one turn in the rotation before\u00a0Orlando Hernandez\u00a0is eligible to come off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=908\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Even the All-Star Break Yet&#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":[356,358,353,169,357],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-craig-swan","tag-don-cardwell","tag-nelson-figueroa","tag-pedro-martinez","tag-pete-harnisch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}