{"id":209,"date":"2008-12-09T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:53:00","slug":"ryanhoward-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/12\/09\/ryanhoward-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"RyanHoward-Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/ST8vwsCY-xI\/AAAAAAAACOs\/VifM2P10bzQ\/s1600-h\/howard.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/ST8vwsCY-xI\/AAAAAAAACOs\/VifM2P10bzQ\/s200\/howard.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277989801802922770\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">  <!--   @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in }   P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }  -->  <\/style>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">I like my title, shame you won&#8217;t see that on the back pages of the Post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">K-Rod.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Pretty much the best closer in the game. At least arguably.  Definitely the bets Free Agent relief pitcher on the market, and as much as I&#8217;m reluctant to always try to &#8216;buy&#8217; the best team, this was the right move.  I&#8217;m not nearly as excited about it as I was Santana, but I&#8217;m fully of the mind that if Wagner doesn&#8217;t get hurt, the Mets win the division, and probably the Phillies don&#8217;t win the Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Omar filled the biggest hole with the biggest plug. We still need a a bunch of relievers, but I don&#8217;t think they need to be big name guys.  Pull in a bunch of guys from the minors, waivers, other teams, rule-5, wherever, and see who can thrive in this system with these coaches and players.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">The last two starters should be the next priority.  I wouldn&#8217;t be against Pedro\/Ollie.  Not both, but one of them.  Perez is probably the better option, but his consistency is infuriating and overly taxing on the bullpen&#8217;s piece of mind.  I don&#8217;t trust Niese to step in and be a reliable 5<sup>th<\/sup> starter.  I think they should assume he&#8217;ll be the guy that&#8217;ll get called up when they need a 6<sup>th<\/sup>, or a fill in guy when someone needs to skip a start.  I&#8217;m not overly concerned with who it is, but It&#8217;d be nice to have another big innings guys so the bullpens innings can be kept down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like my title, shame you won&#8217;t see that on the back pages of the Post. K-Rod. Pretty much the best closer in the game. At least arguably. Definitely the bets Free Agent relief pitcher on the market, and as much as I&#8217;m reluctant to always try to &#8216;buy&#8217; the best team, this was the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/12\/09\/ryanhoward-rod\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RyanHoward-Rod&#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":[256,538,593,591,14,32,592,177,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}