{"id":11826,"date":"2011-08-25T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2011-08-25T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T12:19:00","slug":"london-mets-use-37-players-in-2011-nbl-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11826","title":{"rendered":"London Mets use 37 players in 2011 NBL campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6057\" title=\"Statistics\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Statistics.jpg\" alt=\"Statistics\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\" \/>If you browse through the team pages on the British Baseball Federation website, it&#8217;s hard not to be amazed by the size of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbaseball.org\/page\/show\/310474-mets\" target=\"_blank\">London Mets&#8217; squad<\/a>. Now that they have finished their regular season, I thought I would count up how many of those faces\u00c2\u00a0appeared on the diamond in an NBL game in 2011. The answer to that question is a staggering 37. In contrast, the Herts Falcons have navigated their way to the last weekend of the season using only 14 players (less than 38% of the Mets&#8217; squad size).<\/p>\n<p>But how does the Mets&#8217; seam-bursting 2011 roster compare with other gargantuan lists from the NBL&#8217; s modern history. Well, they match the second largest squad, nestling up to the Croydon Pirates&#8217; pack of 37 in 2008. That was a record, until the Pirates beat their own mark\u00c2\u00a0by getting 41 different players onto the field in 2009. (Both those Pirates&#8217; teams featured yours truly at some point in the season, and there&#8217;s no better indication than that that they were scrambling to put a nine on the field some weeks.)\u00c2\u00a0Before 2008, the largest roster that had been put on display was the 33-strong squad that Bracknell\/Richmond Wildfire boasted in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you browse through the team pages on the British Baseball Federation website, it&#8217;s hard not to be amazed by the size of the London Mets&#8217; squad. Now that they have finished their regular season, I thought I would count up how many of those faces\u00c2\u00a0appeared on the diamond in an NBL game in 2011. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11831,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}