Life is painful: Injuries in Eleven

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know if we started another injury thread, but I couldn't find it despite many variations in my search parameters.

Anyhow, Johan is throwing.

[metirish]

It should have been titled "Expectations of Eleven - Injuries"

[TransMonk]

Per Metsblog, Angel Pagan left today's game with lower back pain.

Jason Bay moved to centerfield. Jason. Bay. Centerfield. Yikes!

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Per Metsblog, Angel Pagan left today's game with lower back pain. Jason Bay moved to centerfield. Jason. Bay. Centerfield. Yikes!

Did play there some in 2005. Apparently Collins didn't want to give up the DH slot to move Harris there.

Hopefully lower back tightness isn't anything to worry about.




For completeness sake, Izzy had some tightness in his arm today. threw some curveballs today just fine and is expected to throw a bullpen tomorrow.

[TransMonk]

Ah...forgot about Harris. I feel better now.

[ashie62]

Pagan has been tagged by Rotoworld as day-to-day.

[Ceetar]

Ashie62 wrote: Pagan has been tagged by Rotoworld as day-to-day.

Pass over him in the draft, I dare you.

[ashie62]

Ceetar wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Pagan has been tagged by Rotoworld as day-to-day. Pass over him in the draft, I dare you.

He is the highest rated Fantasy Met beyond Wright and Krod.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Beltran, while my bureau was busy writing him off for opening day, DH'd in two minor league games, going 2-8 with a homer.

Now all we have to do is join the American League.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

[metirish]

The Mets will not announce until Thursday that Bay is going to the DL, what's the Logic there?

For good measure they will not place Santana on DL until Thursday either.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: The Mets will not announce until Thursday that Bay is going to the DL, what's the Logic there? For good measure they will not place Santana on DL until Thursday either.

They'll do all there transactions in one go around I guess. Presumably Santana is headed to the 60day.

The way things are going, it's probably better this way. If someone trips on a crack and stubs a toe overnight and has to be DL'd, theynot have already set the roster yet.

[Frayed Knot]

They can backdate the Bay DL to where he'll just miss a week and be back in time for the home opener.

That's all assuming he doesn't get hit by a train in the interim.

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: They can backdate the Bay DL to where he'll just miss a week and be back in time for the home opener. That's all assuming he doesn't get hit by a train in the interim.

That would be a quick heal for an oblique, lets hope!

[metirish]

Bay to DL official , eligible to return April 9....

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Bay to DL official , eligible to return April 9....

I heard someone tweet last night that he's expected back sometime around then, that it's not serious, but I'm not sure who or if I trust them.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm having a hard time being too disturbed about Jason Bay missing a few weeks.

I know he's probably better than whoever they'll put out there, but is he significantly better? I have my doubts.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Paulino could use a visit from the Duke of Iron, it seems.

GM Sandy Alderson said Paulino diagnosed with anemia, taking medication, could be back as early as April 24. #mets 7 hours ago via TweetDeck

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm a fan of our backup backup backstop, but if you take Mr. Nickeas' spring performance as having any meaning at all, you are scratching and scrambiling high and low for catching help right now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Isringhausen gets pulled from an extended spring game with back issues. His career may end the way it started, with a repeating loop of rehab in St. Lucie.

[ashie62]

Edgy DC wrote: Isringhausen gets pulled from an extended spring game with back issues. His career may end the way it started, with a repeating loop of rehab in St. Lucie.

Might be best for all...

[Guest The Second Spitter]

According to various sources:
- Bay won't be activate on Saturday:
- Paulino will probably be put on the DL on Saturday

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As per Waldstein (see "Inside Pitch" at the bottom), Isringhausen pitched a successful, ouchless inning in extended spring training.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, the Mets have bought some time, but they're still in their pickle now, with Niese and Parnell the only pitchers with options, and they're not going anywhere.

They could maybe trade Boyer or Buchholz, but it better be in a deal they like, because giving them up just for a roll of the dice with Izzy doesn't seem worth it.

Would they get anything for him if another team bites?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He's not actually under contract, is he?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm having a hard time being too disturbed about Jason Bay missing a few weeks. I know he's probably better than whoever they'll put out there, but is he significantly better? I have my doubts.

Does anybody here still think of Jason Bay as the pre-Mets Jason Bay? The Jason Bay we imagined we were getting when we last signed him? Because if Bay still is, the Mets would have one heck of an offense.

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm having a hard time being too disturbed about Jason Bay missing a few weeks. I know he's probably better than whoever they'll put out there, but is he significantly better? I have my doubts. Does anybody here still think of Jason Bay as the pre-Mets Jason Bay? The Jason Bay we imagined we were getting when we last signed him? Because if Bay still is, the Mets would have one heck of an offense.

Umm... I'm not willing to base my entire expectation of Jason Bay on a handful of months in 2010 and throw out the entire rest of the sample.

Yes, the Mets will have a heck of an offense when he returns. Not that they don't already, but Harris/Hairston/Duda are unlikely to keep producing at the rate of production LF has given us so far.

[Benjamin Grimm]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Does anybody here still think of Jason Bay as the pre-Mets Jason Bay? The Jason Bay we imagined we were getting when we last signed him? Because if Bay still is, the Mets would have one heck of an offense.

I apparently don't. But there is the hope that he'll have a bounceback year, which could be a very good thing for the Mets. I'm just not terribly optimistic that it will play out that way.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Does anybody here still think of Jason Bay as the pre-Mets Jason Bay? The Jason Bay we imagined we were getting when we last signed him? Because if Bay still is, the Mets would have one heck of an offense. I apparently don't. But there is the hope that he'll have a bounceback year, which could be a very good thing for the Mets. I'm just not terribly optimistic that it will play out that way.

I don't know what to think. I'm just going to watch things unfold before my eyes and resist making a bet on either the over or under.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm from Missouri on Bay. Looked like absolute crap last year with a very slow bat. And I'm not encouraged that a plan to get him on track was abandoned (by him) this spring.