Injury Updates, 2006

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kaz Matsui played DH in an extended spring training game, going 2-4 with two steals.

[Elster88]

Larry Jones on the 15-day DL.

Wait, is this thread Met-related injuries only?

[Elster88]

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Kansas City Royals designated hitter Mike Sweeney left the game due to an injured hand/wrist.

[Guest sharpie]

He was hit by a Rivera pitch.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It could have been worse. Rivera could have pushed him into his swimming pool.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

The first pitch of the AB, Rivera threw one that was hardly inside. Sweeney jumped away and dropped him bat.

Two pitches later, he gets hit in the hand.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: It could have been worse. Rivera could have pushed him into his swimming pool.

Oh man, that's a low blow

[Willets Point]

When I was in high school I got hit on the hand during practice. By the pitching machine.

[seawolf17]

OlerudOwned wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"]It could have been worse. Rivera could have pushed him into his swimming pool. Oh man, that's a low blow

Good thing I wasn't drinking anything or Yancy would have owed me a new keyboard.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kaz Matsui went 0-for-3 with a walk as the DH during an extended spring training game in Port St. Lucie

[Elster88]

Livan Hernandez removed (neck) from the 4/13 game with the Mets in the third inning. He was diagnosed with whiplash at an area hospital two hours later.

[Guest vtmet]

Willets Point wrote: When I was in high school I got hit on the hand during practice. By the pitching machine.

Did you charge the mound with bat in hand afterwards?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kaz is 2-7 with a walk in two games for the ST. Lucie Mets.

Bumped up to Norfolk for a gmae, he went 1-4.

[Frayed Knot]

- LAD reliever Yhency Brazoban out for the season.
Tack that onto Eric Gagne's nerve removal surgery and Jae Seo's seo-seo start and I bet they're missing Duaner Sanchez right about now

- David Wells comes off the DL, gets bombed, and goes right back on.
Gee, his knee is having trouble healing under all that weight ... whoda thunk it? Former NYM - taken in Rule 5 Draft - Lenny DiNardo starts in his place this morning (Patriot's day Game).

- Sean Casey out for a few weeks after getting run into at 1st base. Probably too busy talking.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

http://www.kcmets.com/Pictures/jay_satan.jpgCarlos Beltran sat Sunday vs. the Brewers, and will likely do the same tonight against the Braves. He's resting his tweaked hamstring.

EDIT: My Jay Satan post! Cool!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Hail!

[Elster88]

Flee in terror!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cliff Floyd apparently has a strained rib cage muscle, leaving the Mets with two healthy outfielders and Jose Valentin in left.

I hope Diaz's plane to Norfok can turn around.

[Elster88]

I hate being right.

Doesn't he have to stay down for ten games or something? Or five?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I dunno. This is the issue that allowed Mike Bishop to get his only taste of Major League clubhouse buffet food in 1983. I think a sudden injury allows him to turn around.

[Frayed Knot]

Diaz's plane could turn around and bring him back but only if the Mets [u:45f0de354a]DL somebody[/u:45f0de354a] -- not just to come back whist Cliffy & Carlos sit for a few days riding the stationary bike. Without a DL situation I think it's 10 days before he can return.


I suspect the plan - the orignial one anyway before Cliffy's whatever - was to get an extra pitcher for the 'Lanta series and then swap out one of them for Matsui when we hit the left coast.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The only way they can bring him back (listening to the guys in the booth here) is if somebody is put on the disabled list.

The other bugbear is that the Mets have no other outfielders on their 40-man roster, so they'd have to make a roster maneuver if they were to call up a reserve outfielder, and nobody's an obvious alternative. Todd Self has been dragging his ass, and he, Julio Ramirez and Cory Aldridge are all on the interstate down there. (Norfolk actually needs Victor Diaz.)

Other options include Lastings Milledge --- which would be a senstive subject for a callup expected to last a few days, but he's tearing it up, or trying to pass Chris Basak or Jeff Keppinger off as an outfield option.

But, yeah, we could (however unlikely) end up seeing Milledge in the next day or two. Matsui is more likely.

[Elster88]

NY Times wrote: "I'm looking forward to trying to play tomorrow, so I'm going to come in here with the intentions of trying to play," Floyd said. "If it doesn't allow me to play, if it doesn't allow me to swing, then I won't go out there."

[Elster88]

Looks like the plan is to ride this out.

Daily News wrote: GM Omar Minaya said neither Floyd nor Beltran was a disabled list candidate, and that the Mets planned to ride out their injuries without summoning an outfielder from Triple-A Norfolk, where Todd Self or Lastings Milledge would be available. By rule, Diaz could not be recalled for 10 days unless a Met was placed on the DL.

[Guest abogdan]

Atlanta's going with a righty tonight, so I'm guessing Valentin is in the starting lineup in LF if Floyd can't go. You have to consider putting Woody in at 2B tonight to try and get a little more offense in the lineup.

[Elster88]

Can Franco play the outfield or second?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I imagine he can play second in the pinch of pinches. If they were desperate for an outfielder, I imagine they'd try anybody before him, including putting him at first and Delgado in the outfield.

[Frayed Knot]

Elster88 wrote: Can Franco play the outfield or second?

He could and did play 2nd during the Reagan administration.
Not so sure about now.

[Guest KC]

I'd rather see Glavine as an emergency outfielder than Franco (or one of
the youngins in the pen).

[Guest Rotblatt]

Trotting out a starting lineup that includes Valentin, Chavez & Hernandez is just sad.

Hopefully Valentin will tweak something rolling out of bed this morning and we can put him on the DL and bring back Diaz.