2006 25-Man Roster

[Gwreck]

From today's Daily News:

Victor Diaz was expected to travel to Atlanta as a hedge against Carlos Beltran or Bannister being placed on the disabled list today, but there's no guarantee Diaz will be activated.

[Gwreck]

Bannister to DL, Victor Diaz promoted. As reported by Adam Rubin's Daily News blog.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ouch. my goin.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I assume this means we're likely to see John Maine?

Let me put on my Valadius cap: The Lobster Man!

[MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I assume this means we're likely to see John Maine?

Possibly. Willie was just interviewed on M&MD. He said he wants to keep Oliver in the pen and believes someone will be brought up to start in Bannister's spot. He mentioned Maine and someone else(forgot but a non-40 man guy) and then added Lima. He then intimated that Lima hasn't been doing that well. I got the impression Willie wouldn't be too thrilled if it is Lima.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Disabled	Recalled
Starting Pitchers	Outfielders
Bannister	Diaz

I guess I slot Oliver in as the fifth starter for the time being even though he's not the plan. Unless they get more confidence in Julio as a setup man, they don't seem willing to be moving Aaron Heilman. I suspect, though, that if this looks like Bannister is to miss more than one start, then they can call up Bell and start Aaron.

Starting Pitchers
Glavine	Martinez	Oliver	Trachsel	Zambrano
Relief Pitchers
Bradford	Feliciano	Heilman	Julio	Sanchez
Relief Pitchers	Catchers		Infielders
Wagner Tug McGraw Memorial Goofy Reliever Roster Slot	Castro	Lo Duca	Delgado Donn Clendenon Memorial Slugging Firstbaseman Roster Slot	Franco

[Gwreck]

Maine called up, Victor Diaz back to Norfolk. According to ESPN.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Promoted	Farmed Out
Starting Pitchers	Outfielders
Maine	Diaz

Yeah, I'm yeilding to the people's will. Sanchez gets the McGraw slot. He throws his glove at the ball, for Pete's sake.

Wagner's conducted himself as a pro and there ain't nothing wrong with that.

I'm getting the notion that Feliciano is out of options, so I'm coloring him blue.

Starting Pitchers
Glavine	Maine	Martinez	Trachsel	Zambrano
Relief Pitchers
Bradford	Feliciano	Heilman	Julio	Oliver
Relief Pitchers		Catchers		Infielders
Sanchez Tug McGraw Memorial Goofy Reliever Roster Slot	Wagner	Castro	Lo Duca	Delgado Donn Clendenon Memorial Slugging Firstbaseman Roster Slot
Infielders
Franco	Matsui	Reyes	Valentin	Woodward
Infielders	Outfielders
Wright	Beltran Tommie Agee Memorial Forceful, Fleet, and Fun Outfielder Roster Slot	Chavez	Floyd	Nady

Others on the 40-Man Roster
Starting Pitchers
Bannister (On 15-Day DL)	Humber	Lindstrom	Pelfrey	Soler
Relief Pitchers
Bell	Fortunato	Garcia	Owens	Padilla (On 60-Day Disabled List)
Relief Pitchers			Infielders
Perez	Ring	Schmoll	Keppinger	A. Hernandez (On 15-Day DL)
Outfielders
Diaz

[MFS62]

Today's Daily News reported that the Mets have released Todd Self.

Considering the fact that he was batting .108 with no home runs, I guess you could say this was self-inflicted.

This creates a spot on the 40 man roster. Since Jose Lima was pulled from his last start after pitching two scoreless innings, does this mean it might be Lima Time at Shea this Sunday?

Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter.

Edit: Edgy's list shows he wasn't on the Mets' 40 man roster. But it makes room on the Norfolk roster for recently signed Jose Offerman.
(But I still like my "self-inflicted" line anyhow.)

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Self wasn't on the 40.

[Elster88]

Nomination: Cliff Floyd for the Tommy Agee memorial spot. He seems like more fun than Carlos, though he may not be as fleet of foot.

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: Self wasn't on the 40.

I edited my post. I caught it before I saw your response.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know. I think Cammie was the Agee legacy incarnate, but Beltran is the closest thing to carrying it on.

Agee also had a far lousier first year than Beltran when he first came to Shea. He knew from adversity.

[MFS62]

Agee's awful first year with the Mets was because of a terrible Spring Training beaning by Bob Gibson. It was the first time I remember actually yelling at the TV set when I saw Agee go down.


Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

]I think Cammie was the Agee legacy incarnate...

I mean, with far lower body fat and all.

[Guest cooby]

I thought Lima was gone for good, as in released

[Guest Edgy DC]

Promoted	Disabled
Relief Pitchers	Starting Pitchers
Fortunato	Maine

Starting Pitchers
Glavine	Oliver	Martinez	Trachsel	Zambrano
Relief Pitchers
Bradford	Feliciano	Fortunato	Heilman	Julio
Relief Pitchers		Catchers		Infielders
Sanchez Tug McGraw Memorial Goofy Reliever Roster Slot	Wagner	Castro	Lo Duca	Delgado Donn Clendenon Memorial Slugging Firstbaseman Roster Slot
Infielders
Franco	Matsui	Reyes	Valentin	Woodward
Infielders	Outfielders
Wright	Beltran Tommie Agee Memorial Forceful, Fleet, and Fun Outfielder Roster Slot	Chavez	Floyd	Nady

Others on the 40-Man Roster
Starting Pitchers
Bannister (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Humber	Lindstrom	Maine (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Pelfrey
Starting Pitchers	Relief Pitchers
Soler	Bell	Garcia	Owens	Padilla (On 60-Day Disabled List)
Relief Pitchers			Infielders
Perez	Ring	Schmoll	Keppinger	A. Hernandez (On 15-Day Disabled List)
Outfielders
Diaz

[stevejrogers]

cooby wrote: I thought Lima was gone for good, as in released

Signed by the Tides

BTW there are a few simillarities between Mr. Agee and Mr. Beltran. Both considered "5 Tool Athletes" both won the ROY in the AL, both arrived with great promise thrust upon them.

Hell, I wasn't thinking about it in my CPF Song parody of Hotel Flushing with the Beltran signing that it might actually be a case of "...we haven't had that kind of spirt here since, Nine-teen Sixty-Nine..."

[stevejrogers]

You know its funny, in the 2003 and early on in 2004 the Boston media was harping about how the clubhouse was really a 22+1+1+1 team with ManRam, Nomar and Pedro as the "Islands onto themselves" in stories that were printed obstentibly to grease the skids for Nomar's and Pedro's eventual leaving and the potential ManRam leaving

Well its funny looking at the 25 Mets in their official 2006 MLB mug shots and Pedro is the only one A) in a different hat and not facing directly into the camera!

I guess Pedro really is a 24 and one guy! HAHAHA!

[Gwreck]

Zambrano was DLed to make room for Lima on the 25. Not sure what the move was to get Lima on the 40.

OE: Probably was a 60-man DL move. Zambrano reportedly out for the year.

[Frayed Knot]

Yes, Zambrano was 60-day'ed which took care of the replacement on the 25-man as well as the 40-man.

]Well its funny looking at the 25 Mets in their official 2006 MLB mug shots and Pedro is the only one A) in a different hat and not facing directly into the camera!

He's also barefoot and out of step ... meaning that he must actually be dead and we've been seeing a look-alike double all this time.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Assigned to 60-Day Disabled List	Added to 40-Man Roster and Promoted
Starting Pitchers	Starting Pitchers
Zambrano	Lima

I've got to think Lima gets at least one more crack.

Starting Pitchers
Glavine	Lima	Oliver	Martinez	Trachsel
Relief Pitchers
Bradford	Feliciano	Fortunato	Heilman	Julio
Relief Pitchers		Catchers		Infielders
Sanchez Tug McGraw Memorial Goofy Reliever Roster Slot	Wagner	Castro	Lo Duca	Delgado Donn Clendenon Memorial Slugging Firstbaseman Roster Slot
Infielders
Franco	Matsui	Reyes	Valentin	Woodward
Infielders	Outfielders
Wright	Beltran Tommie Agee Memorial Forceful, Fleet, and Fun Outfielder Roster Slot	Chavez	Floyd	Nady

Others on the 40-Man Roster
Starting Pitchers
Bannister (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Humber	Lindstrom	Maine (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Pelfrey
Starting Pitchers		Relief Pitchers
Soler	Zambrano (On 60-Day Disabled List)	Bell	Garcia	Owens
Relief Pitchers				Infielders
Padilla (On 60-Day Disabled List)	Perez	Ring	Schmoll	Keppinger
Infielders	Outfielders
A. Hernandez (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Diaz

[MFS62]

Espn reporting that Heath Bell has been recalled.
But now here's where it gets interesting.
The first report had Feliciano being sent down, another has Fortunato being sent down. If its the first, it was dumb. If its the second, he earned the demotion on pure merit.

Maybe some update guy in Bristol, CT really does think they all DO look alike. (SC= 8.4)

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

I should've seen that coming, as Tim Lavigne and not Bell finished up for the Tides yesterday.

[Guest abogdan]

Rotoworld says it's Fortunato that got sent down.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Sweet.

It's Bell Time, baby!

[Frayed Knot]

That essentially gives us 8* relievers for the Philly series - one of whom will likely have to disappear in order to make way for Jeremi Gonzalez by Friday.
Gonzalez would also need to be added to the 40-man.



Wagner (L)
Heilman
Sanchez
Oliver (L)
Bell
Feliciano (L)
Julio
Bradford

[Guest abogdan]

Who's getting DFA'ed? Has to be one of the lefties, though neither has done anything worty of being DFA'ed.

[Guest Edgy DC]

We'll cross that bridge in time. Nobody has to get DFA'd It could well be Bell going right down.

The Gonzalez start may not come off at all.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

What other option are you thinking they might have? Oliver?