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Mets going with their juiciest lineup of the spring, using seven of eight expected opening-day starters and the reigning rookie of the year. No runs yet through two. deGrom has whiffed two and allowed a single hit.

So, the Mets are scornfully cheap for shopping Gee and scornfully cheap for keeping Gee.

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I briefly sensed yesterday that Satterwhite might have had a few Satterhopes arise in the wake of the Wheeler news.

You're correct. One Tommy John plus complications.

Frayed Knot wrote: We should just start referring to those Mets who have NOT had TJ surgery as 'The Unsullied'. 'Game of Thrones' reference for those unfamiliar I'm counting, out of 31 guys in camp, seven (or 22.6%) to be "sullied" by Tommy John surgery, and another six (19.4%) to be marked by pitching-related surgeries of a different stripe. Those would actually look like pretty successful numbers, from a pure data standpoint, if the list of marked men didn't skew extremely toward the highest profile pitchers they have. The SulliedThe UnsulliedBut�Jacob deGromDario �lvarezNada!Josh Edgin (to come)Vic BlackBut nothin'!Matt HarveyMatt BowmanA healthy arm, and his mom's a doctor!Steven MatzChasen BradfordGot knocked out of camp with an oblique injury last year, but no surgery!Jenrry MejiaBuddy CarlyleA miracle!Bobby ParnellBartolo ColonHe has had bone chip removal surgery.Zach Wheeler (to come)Jeurys FamiliaHad arthroscpic surgery to remove bone spurs and "loose bodies."Dillon GeeHad surgery to remove a blood clot in his shoulder.Sean GilmartinA true blue spectacle!Eric GoeddelClean!Jack LeathersichA good candidate for gastrointestinal surgery, but otherwise clean!Cory MazzoniSuffered a bad impact injury on a comebacker last year, but no surgery!Rafael MonteroHe's a clean machine!Akeel MorrisNo scars!Jon NieseHe has had surgery to repair a hamstring tear.Scott RiceBone spurs.Tyler PillA former outfielder, his arm is still relatively fresh!Hansel RoblesNo Jeff Walters, he!Cody SatterwhiteShoulder surgery back in 2010.Noah SyndergaardKnock a whole lot of wood!Zack ThorntonAn enigmatic, but clean, character!Carlos TorresNothin' but blisters!Jon VelasquezAn indy ball survivor, but no record of surgery that I've found!Gabriel YnoaHe's got the elbow of a newborn baby!

I certainly don't think it's the book to go with Gee. I do think it makes good business sense to give an opportunity to the established guy who has no options and challenge the younger player to figure things out and take the job from him outright. I'm certainly rooting for Montero. But it's a good problem to have, as much as losing Wheeler is a bad problem to have.

Demoted from starter to utility infielder, I have every chance to be the most booed guy at this year's home opener. But I have higher ambitions than that, I'll tell you. I'm Ruben Tejada! Some say I'm lazy and maybe I'm crazy, but I'm as New York as Martin Scorsese. How does my immediate future look to you?

Perfectly valid point, but the poll is the poll. It's been posted since February. And really, the poll isn't so much about what you think the team should do, so much as what you think will end up happening. Maybe we need a new poll.

I dunno. I've witnessed several online statements of utter despair and hopelessness already. Not a lot of Gee Love (or even Special Sauce) bubbling up out there.

Yeah, I pointed that out earlier. That's money. Still, there's not a lot of low maintenance Britneys in this world. Kelly Recker sure seems to have the this-is-the-best-day-of-my-life smile down.

Carmine coughs it up and the Sox win.

I'm guessing no, because of the rope that Rule V-ers get and the no-other-obvious-answer situation with regard to bullpen lefties at the moment.

Dario struck out Garin Cecchini with a runner on base. Gilmartin started the next inning and instantly gave up a couple of hits and the tying run.

Metspouses back in January, supporting the David Wright Foundation: [fimg=550:gw4kb6vc]https://metsinpeace.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-16-at-9-17-02-am.png[/fimg:gw4kb6vc] L to R, that's... somebody, young Cloris Leachman, Molly Wright, Maegan Parnell, somebody else, and Britney Cobian, who seems to assume that until she gets the ring, and/or her boyfriend establishes himself as a big leaguer, her place in the pack is on the right wing. Don't buy that crap, Britney. It's your world, too. Put yourself front and center. It's nice that David could throw this special event for all the wives to all turn themselves out in their fanciest cocktail dresses, while the players rocked the jeans/untucked button downs/cowboy boots/lanyard look. [fimg=550:gw4kb6vc]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8E_f-QCQAEonNi.jpg[/fimg:gw4kb6vc] What a buncha slackers.

Cosmos be damned. Harvey angry.

With Gee Willikers returning to the rotation, Goeddel seems to be first in line to sneak into the back end of the pen, but that's open and certainly can go to Satterwhite or Montero or Mazzoni or Pill or somebody. Drama to come. 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Sunglasses, Travis. We've met Meghan. Christine dD seems new to me, though. Good work. Funny how they couldn't identify the breed of d'Ognaud.

I don't think Gee or Montero have been actively shortened up. Or that anything irreversible has been done to their endurance gene.

Mejia tore his thing in 2011. Dr. Altchek took care of him. From the Archives: "Mejia MCL tear."

Mets reportedly scouting Brian Matusz of the O's, former high-end starter prospect, later converted to the pen. What do you call this, where you grip the ball with the third and fourth finger? Is this a standard change up grip? A palm ball? Got a lot of mileage over the last two seasons.

My real concern is not to suggest that Dr. Andrews is in any way not above board (he and Jobe may possibly deserve to be in the Hall of Fame), but rather to suggest that a small pool of experts is not ideal to the advancement of the field.

Sure, but you don't have to be explicitly corrupt to fall that way on a close call. It's just psychology, man! Guys with hammers look for nails. Guys with rakes look for leaves.

Crazy thought, but with all the ambiguity around the diagnosis until Dr. James Andrews came in and made the definitive pronouncement, doesn't it seem that the pool of trusted experts with regard to this diagnosis seems dangerously shallow. Frank Jobe is gone. Dr. Andrews is 72. Dr. Altcheck, for whatever reason, didn't get the job done on Hefner, and and Andrews had to scrub in for the second surgery. Andrews, Andrews, Andrews. That seems like a lot of elbows and a lot of teams' fates depending on one guy's expertise. And of course, when the diagnostician and the surgeon are the same guy, there can be a motivation there to recommend surgery perhaps more often than is necessarily in the player's interest.

I assume that they'll launch the Gee rocket and start the countdown on Viking I. Sandy's restraint on Gee market looking wise, I guess.