{"id":1512,"date":"2011-08-31T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2011-08-30T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:24:22","slug":"does-the-mets-organization-only-have-five-starting-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/31\/does-the-mets-organization-only-have-five-starting-pitchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Does The Mets Organization Only Have Five Starting Pitchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the exception of Chris Young, who was quickly replaced by Dillon Gee, the Mets starting pitchers have stayed healthy all season and not missed a start. (In fact, they&#8217;re the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/10\/almost-every-met-iswas-injured\/\" target=\"_blank\"> only ones<\/a> to not miss time) \u00a0Now that Niese will need to miss a start or two, and doubleheaders galore will force the Mets to use some more pitchers, where are they?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosters expand on Thursday, the first day they&#8217;ll need another pitcher, and yet first we&#8217;re going to see 40 year old Miguel Batista, and then R.A. Dickey is going to come back on short rest to pitch Friday. \u00a0No Chris Schwinden, no Mark Cohoon. \u00a0 I know there aren&#8217;t a ton of healthy starting pitching prospects in the higher portions of the minor leagues, but why do we have to be subjected to fodder like Batista?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;ll be in the ballpark Thursday to see Batista&#8217;s first, and perhaps last, Mets start on what&#8217;s his 11th team. \u00a0He&#8217;s actually going for his 100th win and 1200th strikeout, which I guess is something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the exception of Chris Young, who was quickly replaced by Dillon Gee, the Mets starting pitchers have stayed healthy all season and not missed a start. (In fact, they&#8217;re the only ones to not miss time) \u00a0Now that Niese will need to miss a start or two, and doubleheaders galore will force the Mets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/31\/does-the-mets-organization-only-have-five-starting-pitchers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does The Mets Organization Only Have Five Starting Pitchers?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1133,19,3,261],"tags":[2225,2226,2964,1721,2224,1608,1494,2173,2222,2227,2228,14,2223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}