So how about this guy? The SandyMets, bit mostly in the ass by Willie Harris, opt this year against pursuing the alleged value of a veteran lefty pinch hitter on the bench, choose the Queens boy, which peals chimes of PR-over-baseball thinking, and he's... performing. Outperforming, in fact, many or most of the Rick Ankiel-set higher-ticket vets that the Mets passed over in favor of finding a useful dude on the AAAA carousel. Did you think we'd be here after his first at-bat of the year, striking out in a scoreless tie with two on, two out, looking at three consecutive pitches? Here's to the guy, and here's to his cousins Chris Jones, Matt Franco, and Eric Valent --- the few fellow bench players in Mets history who arrived and performed despite not having much to show on their big league r�sum�s.