{"id":6433,"date":"2014-02-17T13:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2014-02-17T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:43:32","slug":"mets-could-keep-jenrry-mejia-in-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/17\/mets-could-keep-jenrry-mejia-in-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets could keep Jenrry Mejia in bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jenrrymejia.jpg\" alt=\"jenrrymejia\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jenrrymejia.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jenrrymejia-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jenrry Mejia may be the favorite for the fifth starters spot of the New York Mets rotation but manager Terry Collins says the 24-year-old right hander could always make the team out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Terry Collins says Mejia is a candidate for the Opening Day bullpen if he does not make the rotation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Mets&amp;src=hash\">#Mets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthonyDiComo\/statuses\/435471196940156928\">February 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In five starts at the end of the 2013 season Mejia went 1-2 with a 2.30 ERA and a 1.17 WHIP. He posted a 27\/4 K\/B ratio during that time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d be surprised if Mejia does not claim the rotation spot but stranger things will happen this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenrry Mejia may be the favorite for the fifth starters spot of the New York Mets rotation but manager Terry Collins says the 24-year-old right hander could always make the team out of the bullpen. Terry Collins says Mejia is a candidate for the Opening Day bullpen if he does not make the rotation. #Mets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[649,501,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jenrry-mejia","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}