Ceetar

Thole BOMB! wheeee...

Anderson Hernandez 4/5 this spring. maybe he can tempt the Phillies to trade for him. Duda walks. like him.

Edgy DC wrote: I imagine that virtually everybody in MLB plays a little basketball. (Except Jeter, I'm sure.) Cal Ripken played it non-stop in the offseason and didn't exactly quit when the season started. He swore by it. He probably wasn't even that good. He stayed more-or-less healthy. I think it's a injury risk % thing. not that it's dangerous, but it's more dangerous than golf. sounds like he was playing after reporting to camp, were there other Brewers playing too?

He went with "Phillies Championship Pedigre" this time actually. Sherman wrote: Normally laid back, Beltran responded with a terse, �I don�t know, brother,� when asked if he was concerned this is his life in 2011, starts and stops due to his knees. A follow-up on the topic elicited another curt response: �Nothing I can do about it.� That describes a lot of Mets issues, such as the health of Beltran and Santana. There is not much to do but wait and hope time and rehab work, and that this is not a completely lost season for both. The Mets can do something about the Perez pantomime theater. They have real issues to address, real decisions to make, and Cleon Jones has a better chance of helping the 2011 Mets than Perez. The money already is wasted, the Mets should stop wasting their time, attention and energies to put on a show. Look, we all knew heading into spring the Mets were fragile. Opposed to say the Phillies, who are dealing with injuries to Chase Utley and Domonic Brown, the Mets do not have four aces and a championship pedigree to fall back upon. Their lone ace is hurt. Their confidence is shabby. They need fewer bad days. Read more (you're better off not): http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/hope_springs_infernal_around_the_VXnU5KdIENi2HvGTiwdtYK#ixzz1G754j3mZ

HahnSolo wrote: I blame the other teams. How dare they make the great Yankees travel? Can these piddling teams not make a sojourn to the great Steinbrenner Field? That's what makes the Phillies so great! they train so close!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Can Valdespin play shortstop? 23 games last year. 47 overall (17 errors though) so probably. Got promoted to Binghamton late last year. so only 23 games above A right now.

G-Fafif wrote: Here is another statement from Carlos Beltran: Help! I am being held prisoner in a fortune cookie factory! I think I'd eat more fortune cookies if instead of lame fortunes we got baseball stats. the new baseball card?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Who told him to run with only one knee? Mackey Shillstone? Jerry Manuel? _Charlie_ Manuel? Timo Perez?

Yeah, Valdespin has been a nice surprise, but he's a long shot candidate as it is right? would be surprised with 6million here, rule 5 there, that he makes the team.

Here is a statement from Carlos Beltran: I felt a little discomfort in my left knee last week. I spoke to the doctors today. They advised me to just give it a rest for a couple of days. I can hit and do everything, but back off the running part of it. I feel fine. I think I just overcompensated from all the work I did on the other knee and I just need to give it a little break.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I haven't seen any of the games yet, but I'm getting the sense that Emaus hasn't been looking too good out in the field. Is that accurate? Made a 'real' error earlier today too. That's been my impression as well, but I haven't watched much either. more listening. I don't think Turner, Murphy or even Castillo have looked great either defensively though.

Edgy DC wrote: The Class of 2008 gives us a run in St. Lucie. Two-out double by Daniel Murphy and Nick Evans singles him home. Nats 2, Mets 1. meanwhile Emaus and whoever's in RF now misplay a popup for an infield single. Murphy may be in the lead in that race.

G-Fafif wrote: Does the Captain insist on riding the bus both ways so he can Lead his teammates By Example? He drives the bus. He always make sure to swing by his house on the way out too, so others can marvel at it. I think it's Rivera that annoys me most in that article. "I don't do trips"? They keep him in his coffin and just open it up for the 9th inning?

Edgy DC wrote: A double and an unintentional intentional walk in the third before Ollie gets out of it. Sounds like it was bad enough to knock him out of the mix for the rotation, but not so bad to knock him out of the bullpen mix, but obviously he's got to show more than that. Rich Coutino said he was averaging 85-88 according to scouts, although the Houston guy said he was peaking at a scouts gun and saw 90, so who knows. I agree with that assessment though, bad but not bad enough. one of those outs was caught at the top of the wall by Duda. Announcers said he was still at 89mph in the third. I wonder if my phone has a speed gun app that I can bring down there next week..

Presumably that's it for Ollie. Mostly bad, although doesn't look so bad after the first four batters. did he adjust? (probably not) Houston announcers said he hit 90 at one point. Can't see that being enough to earn another start. Will they leave him in Disney? (near Disney) probably not, probably going to throw him an inning or two in relief from here.

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: This is kharmic payback. Left knee tendonitis was what the Mets (supposedly) made up to disable Oliver Perez and farm him out for a rehab assignment. This is fate saying, "You think left knee tendonitis is a joke? You think it's something to be played with?" That was patella tendinitis wasn't it? and they didn't make it up since MLB actually investigated the reports and confirmed them. And it's also supposedly what Chase Utley has. I did say "supposedly." It was a jokey post. The patella is part of the knee. Sorry, a bit in a non-jokey mood this morn. if we're talking Karma though, I'd have to think we have a lot coming in the + column..

metirish wrote: Ceetar wrote: TransMonk wrote: As Patrick Flood points out, this is common when you're overcompensating and it's the same thing he felt last year. He sat out Saturday 9/11 for it and then played 9/12 and every day going forward. (and then again felt swelling or whatever 3 weeks later, which was also reported to be minor) This probably doesn't change anything about what we expect from Beltran this season. Regular rest. You mean Dr. Patrick Flood? As opposed to Dr. Burkhardt? http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2010/09/knee_tendinitis_keeps_outfield.html

Edgy DC wrote: This is kharmic payback. Left knee tendonitis was what the Mets (supposedly) made up to disable Oliver Perez and farm him out for a rehab assignment. This is fate saying, "You think left knee tendonitis is a joke? You think it's something to be played with?" That was patella tendinitis wasn't it? and they didn't make it up since MLB actually investigated the reports and confirmed them. And it's also supposedly what Chase Utley has.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ollie's throwing 84 MPH High School fastballs. He seems done. He's only auditioning because of his $12M contract. What would you prefer the Mets do with him? leaving the varying degree of fastball out of it, because every report mentions a different number for every start and if he was competant he's got the movement on those pitches to get guys out regardless. I want them to give him a chance to prove he can make the team, up until they need those innings for the serious races. I don't want him to audition as a lefty specialist because the biggest thing keeping him from being successful is also what's going to make it even worse as a reliever. Walks, and not accepting that walks are the worst thing ever. If there isn't a chance he's going to be effective, release him. Why pretend he's auditioning for anything today? Because he _is_. It's probably a .5% chance he earns anything, but it annoys me that people are reporting that it's basically a done deal and yet are all pumped up to give us constant updates as to his status and results. If it's a done deal, I don't need to hear that he threw a ball on a 2-0 count in the second inning do I?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I still haven't experienced the joys of Twitter, so pardon my ignorance. What does #notgood mean? Is that some kind of a tag for people who search for things that are not good? It doesn't mean anything in this case. Generally things with hashtags are easily searchable and trending topics. So many posts I make have #mets (and this hashtag shows up in the MLB At Bat App Twitter stuff... or will anyway) It's like a keyword of the tweet.

TransMonk wrote: As Patrick Flood points out, this is common when you're overcompensating and it's the same thing he felt last year. He sat out Saturday 9/11 for it and then played 9/12 and every day going forward. (and then again felt swelling or whatever 3 weeks later, which was also reported to be minor) This probably doesn't change anything about what we expect from Beltran this season. Regular rest.

Edgy DC wrote: Come on. There is no evidence of anybody being dishonest. It's been reported all weekend that this is expected to be Perez's last start and that Collins sees his primary opportunity to make the team as the bullpen. that's contradictory in it of itself. If he's trying to make the team as a starter, what he does today matters. If today was going to be his last start no matter what, then he's not actually auditioning to be a starter. I know it was always extremely likely and it seemed like Collins told Perez "I'll give you a shot, show me something" and that he hasn't to this point. But to 'report' things as a done deal before it actually happens annoys me.

metirish wrote: metirish wrote: TransMonk wrote: Terry and Sandy are travelling to see Ollie pitch. I thought our GM wanted to see Reyes play. Hey, Sandy! Jose's in St. Lucie. Rubin rather smugly says this is Ollies last time in a Mets uniform. I take that back , he said this Tuesday marks the final start of Oliver Perez's Mets career I guess that can be taken many ways. The main theme there being that Collins and Alderson are not being open and honest with Ollie, and that he doesn't actually have a chance to win the rotation spot even if he throws 4 innings with 12 Ks at 95mph today. You have to wonder why they're bothering to watch then.

Actually, i amend my statement, it looks like the game in Kissimmee might be on the radio. I'll tune in and can hear the Astro's announcers impression of Ollie..

TransMonk wrote: I hope you are right (Ceetar). If the Mets are going to win more games than they lose this year, Beltran is one of many pieces that needs to fit into the puzzle squarely. Hearing that he has to take two days off after playing one game in early March is very discouraging. Indeed. Although I do think Hairston's going to be servicable and that there is a chance someone like Duda or Martinez or one of our other OF prospects that we seem to have a handful of could contribute positively. really i'm just saddened. Beltran is (was?) a great player and the looming issue seems to be that he might not play baseball again.