Mets 2013 Roster

[Edgy MD]

The definition they established after the first Marlin sweep still works for me.

[Zvon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I know. It just seems like they're shuffling deck chairs.

Even so, at least now I'll find it more interesting. I was running out of reasons to watch.

[Vic Sage]

Satin, Edgin and Cowgill give you a reason to watch?
Then you are truly desperate for a reason to watch.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think throwing Ike overboard is the tide that lifts all boats. It could not have been a happy workplace with that shit going on every day.

[Zvon]

Vic Sage wrote: Satin, Edgin and Cowgill give you a reason to watch? Then you are truly desperate for a reason to watch.

Well, I'd continue to watch anyway, even if they stuck with Ike (got that MLB.TV deal). I found myself asking myself why a lot lately. Why sit through this?
I just like that they have changed things up. I was getting sick of watching the current cast of misfits. It was getting very difficult to witness. I am interested in what Satin can do at this level, at this time. Maybe see Muffy at first if they go that way. It's refreshed my interest.

If I ever get desperate over anything to do with the Mets its a passing thing that lasts only a minute or so. I vent it. I'm not a believer in wasting time on negative emotions. And with this team, that's a good thing.

[Edgy MD]

Got to think Cowgill is fortunate that this swapout had to (at least the Mets felt it had to) go down when it did. If it could have happened a couple of days earlier, the outfield almost certainly would have gone to Brown, who is absolutely all-world in the PCL this year, and seemingly has come off the DL has smoking hot as he was when he went onto it.

With just a handful more plate appearances, he'd be leading the league in the whole magilla --- batting average, OBP, slugging, and OPS natch.

Second in the circuit in RBI is Wilmer Flores.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

So with Turner down and Brown up, the backup shortstop is.... Valdespin? Wright? If anyone was thinking Young (as I was), he's never played an inning at short, majors or minors. Me, I'd play Recker there, if only to see him without a mask on for longer stretches.

[Edgy MD]

Shortstop depth chart is likely:

[*:1awlju5c]Quinty[/*:m:1awlju5c]
[*:1awlju5c]Valdy[/*:m:1awlju5c]
[*:1awlju5c]Youngy[/*:m:1awlju5c]
[*:1awlju5c]Sugar[/*:m:1awlju5c][/list:o:1awlju5c]

Probably will never get to slot three and possibly never get to slot two, but I'd have no complaint if Wright were ahead of Young.

[Frayed Knot]

Atchison back to the DL - did he ever really come off it?

[Edgy MD]

He pulls a Larry Yount, and gets credit for an appearance without actually participating.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=atchisc01&t=p&year=2013

[Edgy MD]

Sources say Niese is hitting the DL and Burke is coming back.

That they called up a reliever and not a starter and a reliever suggests that Marcum gets a stay of execution, but I say that Carlos Torres is looking like a real option for the fifth starter.

[MFS62]

According to Mets.com, RHP Gonzalez Germen is on his way to NY. A corresponding move will made prior to Tuesday's game.


Later

[Edgy MD]

Shoulda made this move at the start of the homestand. This pen is gassed.

[Frayed Knot]

According to Mets.com, RHP Gonzalez Germen is on his way to NY.

A 25 y/o Right-hander, Germen is not exactly lighting things up out in the desert: 5.70 ERA, 1.34 WHiP, and before we blame it on the location, those numbers aren't too far off from what he was doing in Buffalo last year: 5.14, 1.26
Sounds like a temporary move at best.

A corresponding move will made prior to Tuesday's game.

Lyon? Tough to make a case for anyone getting the boot instead of him assuming there's not an injury we don't know of.

[Edgy MD]

I'm betting it comes from the offensive side. t's not like Valdy and Nieuwie are getting any PT. Lutz even less.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I agree with both previous posts. It will probably be short-term, and I think a position player will go down. They probably just want a few more arms in the bullpen for the next week or so.

Lyon had been doing well, then is suddenly awful. Either he's going through a slumpy spell, or there's some ailment that we don't yet know about.