Finale of the Phillies series, as Bobby Parnell and Cliff Lee take to the mound for their respective teams.
Here’s the lineup the Mets will run out onto the field…
Take to the comments to discuss today’s game.
David Wright was taking grounders at Citi Field and is on track to return to the Mets Sept. 1, the day after he is eligible to come off the DL.
J.J. Putz, who threw a simulated game on Saturday, tossing 19 pitches. He will begin his rehab assignment on Tuesday with the Brooklyn Cyclones. From Brooklyn he will pitch for the Binghamton Mets, then the major league club.
Though Wright should be in no rush at all to return, Putz has something to prove. The Mets hold a 2010 club option worth $8.6 million with a $1 million buyout.
Yikes. That’s a lot to pay a set-up man.
Pat Misch has been sent down. Ken Takahashi has been called up from Triple-A Buffalo.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Billy Wagner was reportedly picked off waivers on Friday by the Boston Red Sox. The Mets and the Red Sox had three days, until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, to work out a deal.
From all the reports that have come out since then, it seems unlikely he will be traded.
Ken Rosenthal, who was the first to report the waiver claim, writes that the conditions asked for by Wagner are unlikely to be accepted by the Sox. Wagner has asked the Sox to guarantee they would not pick up his option so that he can become a free agents in 2010 without restrictions.
Wagner also asked the Sox not to offer him salary arbitration.
Wagner has a full no-trade clause, but said he would waive it if these conditions were met.
Still, the Mets and Sox have until 1 p.m. Tuesday to work out a possible deal.
-Jerry Manuel on the obvious
Only the Mets.
And here’s a link to the video of the unassisted triple play, if you were lucky enough not to see it until now.
Pedro Martinez (1-0, 4.50 ERA) vs. Oliver Perez (3-3, 6.06 ERA)
Chat removed, as usual.
Pedro Martinez will be facing the Mets for the first time since signing a four-year deal with them back in 2004. Here’s the lineup the Mets will run out against Pedro and the Phillies…
In a tune we’ve already heard this season, a Wilpon has made it known that Omar Minaya will be back for 2010. When Minaya was asked about Jerry Manuel, he sang the same song.
This time around, it’s head honcho Fred Wilpon making the call on Minaya. (Last time, it came from Jeff’s mouth.)
Mike Puma of the NY Post got in one question to Wilpon, asking if Minaya was coming back for at least another turn with the team.
“Am I going to bring Omar back next year?” Wilpon told Puma. “Absolutely. That's a fact.”
Later, Puma asked Minaya what his plans were for Manuel.
“Jerry is my guy,” Minaya told Puma. “We work well together.”
That’s two of the dreaded “votes of confidence.” Guess we just have to wait and see how it plays out.