{"id":626,"date":"2009-07-15T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2009-07-15T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T02:53:08","slug":"now-pitching-for-the-phillies-pedro-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Now Pitching for the Phillies, Pedro Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/43510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627\" title=\"43510\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/43510.jpg\" alt=\"43510\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find the whole thing to be quite surreal.\u00a0 You wanted a big name pitcher for the run to the post-season.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t get much bigger than this, but for the last two years, the guy has not pitched.\u00a0 I still remember how Steve Carlton hung on too long.\u00a0 he didn&#8217;t just stay past his prime, Lefty stayed past his ability to pitch to major leaguers.\u00a0 If you weren&#8217;t around for that episode, let me just say two words &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/thehotstoneleague\/2009351117_brett_favre_steve_carlton_of_t.html\">Brett Farve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is really only one question that concerns me now &#8211; can he get people out?\u00a0 If he can get big league batters out, then he will be an asset to this team.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/csnphilly.com\/pages\/main\">He came across great at his press conference<\/a> and any fan of the Phillies can&#8217;t help but be excited by his energy.\u00a0 If nothing else, his attitude is youthful and his track record erases all doubt about competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Garcia passed a physical, but was never able to pitch properly, proved to be injured, and has no career now to speak of.\u00a0 So, we know the Phillies&#8217; physicals don&#8217;t always pan out.\u00a0 But if Martinez can get batters out, then this will have been worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the whole thing to be quite surreal.\u00a0 You wanted a big name pitcher for the run to the post-season.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t get much bigger than this, but for the last two years, the guy has not pitched.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[568,570,569,566,1483,567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}