{"id":953,"date":"2008-06-03T03:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T03:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=953"},"modified":"2013-12-01T04:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:01:21","slug":"this-week-in-disabled-list-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Disabled List History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/pedro-paper.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"309\" \/>The Mets tonight welcome a healthy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/martinez-pedro-0\">Pedro Martinez<\/a>\u00a0back to the team, hopefully to stay awhile but you never know. To make room they optioned newly activated reliever\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/muniz-pedro\">Carlos Muniz<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/vargas-claudio\">Claudio Vargas<\/a>\u00a0in the meantime got a sudden introduction to his new role as a long man, mopping up for irritating lefty\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/perez-oliver\">Oliver Perez<\/a>\u00a0after the Giants bashed Perez for six momentum-eviserating runs in one-third of an inning Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement saves a starting assignment for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/pelfrey-mike\">Mike Pelfrey<\/a>, who, for all of his struggles has turned in more quality starts with a lot less hype than, say, Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy combined. Oliver Perez too for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Pelfrey may not ever be the guy the Mets hoped he&#8217;d be when they called his name in Omar Minaya&#8217;s first draft as head honcho three years ago this week, but finding that out is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of anniversaries, it was\u00a0<strong>10 years ago\u00a0<\/strong>this Sunday that while playing ultimate frisbee in Yonkers, I collapsed to the turf with what would later be diagnosed as a ruptured Achilles tendon. Aside from effectively ending a maniacal pursuit to become the world&#8217;s most famous frisbee player, the coming months off my feet for surgery and subsequent rehab would lead to the even stupider quest to chronicle every uniform number in Mets history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets tonight welcome a healthy\u00a0Pedro Martinez\u00a0back to the team, hopefully to stay awhile but you never know. To make room they optioned newly activated reliever\u00a0Carlos Muniz.\u00a0Claudio Vargas\u00a0in the meantime got a sudden introduction to his new role as a long man, mopping up for irritating lefty\u00a0Oliver Perez\u00a0after the Giants bashed Perez for six momentum-eviserating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Week in Disabled List History&#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":[330,365,241,237,169],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-muniz","tag-claudio-vargas","tag-mike-pelfrey","tag-oliver-perez","tag-pedro-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}