{"id":200,"date":"2008-10-03T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-10-03T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T03:09:00","slug":"first-offseason-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/10\/03\/first-offseason-move\/","title":{"rendered":"First Offseason Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Omar&#8217;s poised to make his first mistake of the off season.  Hopefully it&#8217;s his only mistake.  I have confidence he&#8217;ll do what&#8217;s needed to improve this team, without caving to what whiny fans think is the best course of action.  However, keeping Manuel who failed as a bench coach, failed as an interim manager, and may have even failed as a leader in the clubhouse and managed a team that was succeeding and cruising, even without Billy Wagner, and managed to have them crash and burn again. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily managers don&#8217;t have that big an impact, and if you give anybody the right players they can&#8217;t succeed.  If the bullpen did, or will, pitch well enough that Manuel doesn&#8217;t have to constantly tamper with it, he won&#8217;t be able to screw it up.  Maybe if he resides over a spring training for real, he won&#8217;t treat next September like one. <\/p>\n<p>Omar&#8217;s decisions can only get better from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Omar&#8217;s poised to make his first mistake of the off season. Hopefully it&#8217;s his only mistake. I have confidence he&#8217;ll do what&#8217;s needed to improve this team, without caving to what whiny fans think is the best course of action. However, keeping Manuel who failed as a bench coach, failed as an interim manager, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/10\/03\/first-offseason-move\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Offseason Move&#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":[],"tags":[577,256,488,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}