2006 25-Man Roster

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Milledge down.

Not looking good for Lastings to get a postseason taste this year, huh?

Oh well. I would have liked to have seen him in the playoffs (and that may yet happen) but the Mets are overstocked in the outfield, and Endy has been more productive.

Floyd remains the wild card here. Will he be healthy on October 3?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Recalled from Norfolk	Optioned to Norfolk
Pitchers	Outfielders
Bannister	Milledge

At the exact time that I'm posting, "Damn, this is a transacting team," another transaction is announced. Damn.

Milledge goes down having only just burned his rookie eligibility.
















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Starting Pitchers
Bannister	Glavine	O. Hernandez	Maine	Trachsel
Starting Pitchers	Relief Pitchers
Williams	Bradford	Feliciano	Heilman	R. Hernandez
Relief Pitchers			Catchers
Mota	Oliver	Wagner	DiFelice	Lo Duca
Infielders
Delgado Donn Clendenon Memorial Slugging Firstbaseman Roster Slot	Franco	Reyes	Valentin	Wright
Infielders	Outfielders
Woodward	Beltran Tommie Agee Memorial Forceful, Fleet, and Fun Outfielder Roster Slot	Chavez	Green	Tucker

Others on the 40-Man Roster
Starting Pitchers
Humber (St. Lucie)	Lindstrom (Binghamton)	Martinez (on 15-Day Disabled List)	Pelfrey (Norfolk)	O. Perez (Norfolk)
Starting Pitchers		Relief Pitchers
Soler (Norfolk)	Zambrano (On 60-Day Disabled List)	Bell (Norfolk)	Owens (Norfolk)	Padilla (On 60-Day Disabled List)
Relief Pitchers			Catchers	Infielders
Ring (Norfolk)	Sanchez Tug McGraw Memorial Goofy Reliever Roster Slot (On 60-Day Disabled List)	Schmoll (Norfolk)	Castro (on 60-Day Disabled List)	A. Hernandez (Norfolk)
Infielders	Outfielders
Gotay (Norfolk)	Floyd (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Milledge

[stevejrogers]

Poor Brian. He's been gone so long, he's forgotten his name!

[Willets Point]

25-Man Roster meet 25-Page Thread.

[Gwreck]

Bannister's return pushes us to a season-high 13 pitchers.

If Oliver Perez is indeed starting on Saturday more moves are coming. Dave Williams certainly wouldn't deserve it but he could be headed to waivers. The other feasible option would be to send Bannister back to Norfolk immediately after the game.

Darren Oliver certainly is well rested, having not pitched since August 14 (that's 10 days now).

All these pitching moves make it that much harder to find some days off for our regulars. It's been a month since Wright had one, and Jose Reyes hasn't had one since the all-star break.

[Zvon]

Sorry--saw this after I posted that Milledge thread (and I was reading before posting so dont even go there).

I would have thought Milledge going down would be a threadworthy event.

You can delete that thread, powers that be.

[Gwreck]

The Bannister/Perez flip happens, still leaving us with 13 pitchers on the roster.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Recalled from Norfolk	Optioned to Norfolk
Starting Pitchers
Perez	Bannister

Meet the Met Number 798.

Starting Pitchers
Glavine	O. Hernandez	Maine	Perez	Trachsel
Starting Pitchers	Relief Pitchers
Williams	Bradford	Feliciano	Heilman	R. Hernandez
Relief Pitchers			Catchers
Mota	Oliver	Wagner	DiFelice	Lo Duca
Infielders
Delgado Donn Clendenon Memorial Slugging Firstbaseman Roster Slot	Franco	Reyes	Valentin	Wright
Infielders	Outfielders
Woodward	Beltran Tommie Agee Memorial Forceful, Fleet, and Fun Outfielder Roster Slot	Chavez	Green	Tucker

Others on the 40-Man Roster
Starting Pitchers
Bannister (Norfolk)	Humber (St. Lucie)	Lindstrom (Binghamton)	Martinez (on 15-Day Disabled List)	Pelfrey (Norfolk)
Starting Pitchers		Relief Pitchers
Soler (Norfolk)	Zambrano (On 60-Day Disabled List)	Bell (Norfolk)	Owens (Norfolk)	Padilla (On 60-Day Disabled List)
Relief Pitchers			Catchers	Infielders
Ring (Norfolk)	Sanchez Tug McGraw Memorial Goofy Reliever Roster Slot (On 60-Day Disabled List)	Schmoll (Norfolk)	Castro (on 60-Day Disabled List)	A. Hernandez (Norfolk)
Infielders	Outfielders
Gotay (Norfolk)	Floyd (On 15-Day Disabled List)	Milledge

[metirish]

Do we know what number Perez will wear?

[metirish]

mets.com has him listed as #46

[Gwreck]

Bump for the returns of AHernandez, Ring, and Bell (for the 5th and final time -- is that a record?)

[Gwreck]

Call-ups due tomorrow:

Brian Bannister, Mike Pelfrey, Kelly Stinnett, and according to Gary on the SNY broadcast, Phillip Humber. I didn't hear him say Lastings Milledge but I've got to figure he's coming back too.

[Frayed Knot]

- I'd certainly want to see Milledge back also. If nothing else he's a RH bat and a bit of speed when our bench doesn't have a whole lot of either.

- No harm in bringing up Humber. He, like Pelfrey, was signed to a Major League contract meaning he's already on the 40-man and there are no option years "wasted" by bouncing him up. But I doubt he'll see much action (at least on the mound). May get into a game or two but is prolly here to soak up the atmosphere as much as anything.
Plus, hell, we've already used 26 pitchers this season, another one can't hurt.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

If Humber gets into a game he'll be the 799th Met, and probably the last new one this season.

Number 800 will be the first new guy of the 2007 season.

[Gwreck]

Bannister, Humber, Pelfrey, Williams, Milledge called up.
Ledee and Stinnett had their contracts purchased.

Steve Schmoll to the 60-day DL to make room for Ledee/Stinnett on the 40-man roster.

That makes our 60-day DL total 5: Duaner, Castro, Schmoll, Padilla, and Victor Z.

[MFS62]

Humber was the winning pitcher for Binghamton last night. He pitched 6 innings, gave up two hits, one run, no walks and struck out 4. That lowered his AA ERA to 2.88.

Later

[MFS62]

="Gwreck"] Bell (for the 5th and final time -- is that a record?)

Apparently not:

]Mike Thompson is being promoted from Triple-A Portland for the sixth time this season. The right-hander is 6-1 in Portland with a 3.76 ERA. He pitched three scoreless

Later

[Vic Sage]

Does Milledge make the post-season roster? It would seem he HAS to, doesn't it? Otherwise we have no RH-ed OFers on the team (other than switch-hitting Beltran, and UT Woodward, who we need available as an IF backup).

And assuming we go with a 6-man bench /11-man staff (as we should, with a starter in the bullpen), does Robo make the staff over Mota, based on his ad hoc "assistant coach" role with the pitchers?

[Gwreck]

Yes, I think Milledge makes it and bumps Tucker out.

The 25th man will probably be Tucker/A. Hernandez/Maine.

Unless of course they leave Trachsel out.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I'm beginning to think that maybe the Mets go with 12 pitchers, the starters being as unpredictable as they've been.

But, a lot can happen in 4 weeks.

[Gwreck]

Looks like Pelfrey is not being promoted yet.

From The Virginian Pilot:

]On to Port St. Lucie, Fla. Rookie pitcher Mike Pelfrey is headed to the Mets' spring training complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla., to receive treatment for an ailing back. Tides trainer Brian Chicklo said the injury was "very minor."

[metirish]

From the Times article today.

] Willie Randolph said he did not anticipate having a postseason need for any of the players who were recalled when rosters expanded last Friday.

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: From the Times article today. ] Willie Randolph said he did not anticipate having a postseason need for any of the players who were recalled when rosters expanded last Friday.

I hope he changes his mind and adds Lastings. This team needs a righty hitting outfielder because I think they will see a lot of lefty starters. And Green had some goshawful swings against lefties this past week.

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I don't remember all the KTE's.

Which potential playoff opponents have a lot of lefty starters?

[MFS62]

Off the top of my head -The Phillies have Cole Hamels, Ron Wolf and Jamie Moyer.
I'll check the others and post/edit here if I find a potential playoff opponent with more than two lefty starters.

Edit:
LA - nope
Hou - nope
StL - nope
Reds -nope, but four pretty effective lefty relievers.

Yes, its the Phillies who scare me.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

The Phillies! They could go with an all-lefty rotation if they want:
Hamels, Leiber, Wolf, Moyer, Madson, plus they got Fults and Arthur Rhodes in the bullpen.

It's important they don;t make it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Astros, aside from Clemens (assuming he answers the bell) and Oswalt, come with Wandy Rodriguez and Andy Pettitte.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Cardinals- None, with Mulder out.

Reds- Home Run Milton

Dodgers- Mark Hendrickson, who I don't envision starting in the postseason because he's lousy.

Padres- David Wells

Giants- Noah Lowry

Phillies- Cole Hamels, Jamie Moyer, Randy Wolf. Probably the biggest concern, but the Mets hit Moyer pretty well recently. Wolf's overall numbers aren't so good, but according to MLB.com his OBA vs. LHB is a re-damn-diculous .045.

Marlins- Scott Olsen and Dontelle Willis. That scares me a bit.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Wells became a Padre too late for the postseason, didn't he?

So it looks like the Phillies are the only team that can come at the Mets with a lot of lefty starters, and they can't be a first-round opponent.

Getting back to Milledge, I guess one option would be to leave him off the NLDS roster and add him to the NLCS roster in the unfortunate event that the Phillies are the opposing team.

[seawolf17]

I'll say it again and again; the Phillies and Marlins are the only other NL teams that scare me.