{"id":9071,"date":"2010-09-02T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2010-09-02T19:59:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:59:38","slug":"great-britain-catcher-mike-nickeas-gets-a-big-league-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9071","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain catcher Mike Nickeas gets a Big League call up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6145\" title=\"Team GB\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Gb1.jpg\" alt=\"Team GB\" width=\"128\" height=\"137\" \/>There was some exciting news today for the Great Britain national team as <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20100902&amp;content_id=14212340&amp;vkey=news_nym&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=nym\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Nickeas was promoted<\/a> from Triple-A to the Major Leagues by the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Nickeas represented Great Britain in the 2007 European Baseball Championships and was one of the key reasons why the team won the silver medal that year.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately an injury kept the catcher out of the 2009 World Cup, but his contribution to the 2007 team means that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll always have a noteworthy place in the National Team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, and even more so if he gets into a game over the next few weeks and becomes a full fledged Major Leaguer.<\/p>\n<p>Nickeas has been added the Mets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 40-man roster and would be available for selection for tonight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game against Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>His GB biography can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\/biographies\/Mike%20Nickeas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was some exciting news today for the Great Britain national team as Mike Nickeas was promoted from Triple-A to the Major Leagues by the New York Mets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,4],"tags":[63,553,108],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","category-international-baseball-2","category-mlb-2","tag-great-britain","tag-mlb-2","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9073,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}