{"id":910,"date":"2008-04-21T02:10:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T02:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-12-01T02:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:12:21","slug":"third-times-a-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Third Time&#8217;s A Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/manderson18.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"141\" \/>Aging pinch-hitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/anderson-marlon\">Marlon Anderson<\/a>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"9 in 2008: .067 and a broken bat\" alt=\"9 in 2008: .067 and a broken bat\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/manderson9.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>is expected to get his first start of the year Tuesday afternoon as the Mets wrap up a quick visit to Wrigley, and hopefully, jump-start a bat that&#8217;s been slumbering for much of the early going.<\/p>\n<p>The start would also be Anderson&#8217;s first while wearing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/9\">No. 9\u00a0<\/a>&#8212; he changed into it this offseason after the Mets acquired\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/schnieder-brian\">Brian Schneider<\/a>, who received 23. Anderson wore 18 in his go-round with the Mets in 2005 but that number now belongs to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alou-moises\">Moises Alou<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"23 in 2007: .319\/.355\/.551 in 69 ABs\" alt=\"23 in 2007: .319\/.355\/.551 in 69 ABs\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/manderson23.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Anderson is the 23rd player to wear at least 3 different Met uniform numbers and if 9 turns out to be the worst of the three he won&#8217;t be alone:<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cone-david\">David Cone\u00a0<\/a>(16);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/darling-ron\">Ron Darling<\/a>\u00a0(15) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/elster-kevin\">Kevin Elster<\/a>\u00a0(15) are right there with him among players whose third uniform was their worst. And though .067 is a tiny sample, Anderson at the moment looks a lot like the guy released by the Dodgers a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/brooks-hubie\">Hubie Brooks\u00a0<\/a>(7),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/jones-cleon\">Cleon Jones<\/a>\u00a0(21) and even the patron saint of multple jersey wearers,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/mcknight-jeff\">Jeff McKnight\u00a0<\/a>(7) the third time was a charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging pinch-hitter\u00a0Marlon Anderson\u00a0is expected to get his first start of the year Tuesday afternoon as the Mets wrap up a quick visit to Wrigley, and hopefully, jump-start a bat that&#8217;s been slumbering for much of the early going. The start would also be Anderson&#8217;s first while wearing\u00a0No. 9\u00a0&#8212; he changed into it this offseason after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Third Time&#8217;s A Harm&#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":[173],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marlon-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}