DocTee

Do you think they're watching the game on their phone, or using the device to video-record an historic moment?

Destined to be featured in a Spring Training quiz authored by Seawolf (and answered, correctly, by FAFIF) in coming years.

It seems that every time a regular for whom Wilmer Flores can take over gets hurt...so does Wilmer Flores. He needs to time his own injuries better. Or get hurt less frequently.

is Mejia really still on the 40 man roster? If so, why?

2-1 on Bryant is kind of krazy. I'd take the field every time. There's nobody between Bryant (2-1) and Cespedes (25-1)?

Coghlan

Name the first Met to: 1. Record a base hit:Cabrera 2. 1st single: Cabrera 3. Double: Walker 4. Triple: Reyes 5. Home Run: Bruce 6. Run batted In: Walker 7. Multiple runs batted in on a single plate appearance: Bruce 8. Steal a base: Reyes 9. Draw a walk: Reyes 10. Reach safely on an error: Lagares 11. Be hit by a pitch: d'Arnaud 12. Score a run: Reyes 13. Enter the game as a pinch hitter: Lagares 14. Record a sacrifice hit, including a Sac Fly: d'Arnaud 15. Get picked off or caught stealing: Granderson 16. Drive in multiple runs in a single plate appearance that takes the team from behind in the score to ahead: Granderson 17. Credited with a "walk-off" RBI: Cespedes * Name the first Met pitcher to: 18. Record a strike out: Syndergaard 19. Reach double figures in strikeouts in a single appearance; de Grom 20. Issue a walk: Syndergaard 21. Hit an opposing batter with a pitch" Syndergaard 22. Get a win: Robles 23. Get a save: Reed 24. Appear as a relief pitcher: Blevins 25. First pitcher to record a hit as a batter: Syndergaard 26. Throw a complete game: Syndergaard 27. Be credited with a "hold": Robles * Tiebreaker: Which Met will be the last man to bat on opening day?: Duda

Dillon Gee opted out of his dealio with the Rangers. Tossed six shutout innings yesterday, with nine strikeouts. Has had a pretty solid spring: "In 19 2/3 innings during Major League camp, Gee logged a 3.20 ERA with a stellar 18-to-3 K/BB ratio. While he’s been tagged for 25 hits, only one of those has left the yard for a home run." He'll latch on somewhere, for sure.

86-76 Second place, no playoffs. Terry fired.

9. herm Winningham

3. Jeff Reardon

Jeremy Heffner now an advanced scout with the Minnesota Twins, per MLBTRADERUMORS.

1, Herm Winningham

He gets it-- I hope. Looking at that B-R page, he didn't earn a single vote for Rookie of the Year? Shit, even Kaz Matsui and Termel Sledge (!) got one each... http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_2004.shtml

How can there be more first-round picks (44) than there are MLB teams (30)? Supplemental?

Chico Walker?

8. Butera

3. Pulsipher

Check out those socks on the guy closest to the cameraman!

yes, my bad on the second surgery statement-- I read he was seeking a second opinion, and my brain saw he was facing his second operation. nonetheless, a potentially crippling blow to the redbird rotation.

Big loss for the Cardinals, as highly-touted P Alex Reyes out for the year with his SECOND Tommy John surgery. They moved some other starters to accommodate him in the rotation, so are now doubly-screwed.

Ashie62 » Sun Feb 12, 2017 7:26 pm I am Jose Fernandez and I drove a boat under the influence of alcohol and cocaine and killed mysself and two friends. I don't know why MLB is having the Marlins wear a patch with my number on it. Did I become a role model? Oh, come on.... First, I doubt that "MLB is having the Marlins wear a patch..." This is most assuredly a franchise decision and not, say, a requirement that they wear an AllStar or Postseason patch, as required by the league. On his passing, owner Jeffrey Loria declared that the number would be retired and a suitable memorial erected, so generations of fans would remember JF. He was an immigrant, and a Cuban, in a city filled with both. The circumstances of his death are immaterial. if we held everyone to the standards of sobriety and good judgment, nobody would be enshrined in Cooperstown-- maybe not even in MFY Stadium III.

From the NYTIMES, four years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/sports/baseball/sam-khalifa-briefly-a-rising-star-forever-a-mourning-son.html

Colin Cowgill, Sandy Eggo, minor league dealio.

Thereby removing Seattle, which had an OF-vacancy created by the trade of Seth Smith, from the Granderson-Bruce market.