Because a lot of people care and might want to know who they are looking at during trips to spring training games, Adam Rubin has posted a list of players numbers.
Enjoy.
Also enjoy figuring out who has little to no chance on making the team based on the number assigned to him.
The Daily News has a one-minute video of Oliver Perez pitching in Port St. Lucie. See below for the vid…
A few things here:
Just click this link and…um…listen to what they have to say.
It’s a mock-commercial styled after the “Real Men of Genius” ads that are oh-so-catchy.
This one is, well, a little rough.
And let the commenting and name calling begin…
Head over to NJ.com to check out Brian Costa’s roster outlook for who will land on the Mets 25-man roster.
It looks like a sound team, with chance to be good (not great). If everyone plays to their maximum potential, they could be very good, but it’s too much to ask for.
If Rod Barajas does sign, no chance that Josh Thole cracks the opening day roster this year.
And let the injuries begin!
Brian Costa of NJ.com is reporting that the Mets plan to “move slowly” with Kelvim Escobar due to his sore shoulder.
Escobar had surgery on his right shoulder and has pitched in only one major league since.
And so signals the beginning of joke cracking and rehashing last season’s injuries from everyone and their mother.
We are all very, very excited that Jose Reyes is back. How do I know this? Well, let’s just take a look at all the posts over the last 24 hours that mention the Mets shortstop in the headline…
Newsday
Daily News
NY Times
NJ.com
MetsBlog
Mets Merized Online
Hardball Talk
Now, these are just the times Reyes was mentioned in the headline. There were about 20-25 other articles where he was mentioned, just not in the headline.
Also, there are just from the blogs in my Google Reader. I can only imagine how many others are out there, just from the last 24 hours.
Update – 10:13 a.m.: Jon Heyman says the Mets have offered a minor-league deal.
Original post: Ken Rosenthal, citing anonymous sources, says the Mets are negotiating a one-year deal with free-agent catcher Rod Barajas.
Barajas, according to Rosenthal, would get the bulk of playing time over Henry Blanco, Omir Santos, Josh Thole and Chris Coste.
Last season with the Blue Jays, Barajas hit .226 / .258 / .403 and posted a .661 OPS. He hit 19 home runs and drove in 71.
Behind the plate, he threw out 34 percent of the runners who attempted to steal against him.
“At this time last year Mets pitcher Mike Pelfrey tried to convince me why he should not be on my 2009 list despite his 48-inning jump. He was a big guy, he said, who learned to be more efficient with his pitches. What happened?
His ERA shot up from 3.72 to 5.03.”
I really don’t know what to make of this situation.
On one hand, I think Daniel Murphy should have the clear advantage as he hits for a better average, gets on base at a better clip and flashes much better leather (though not ideal).
On the other hand, a much, much weaker hand, Mike Jacobs hits for power. That’s about it.
And it seems that these two are directly competing with each other and no one else. Chris Carter won’t be a factor and Fernando Tatis is the likely pair with Murphy or Jacobs to bat from the other side of the plate.
Murphy and Jacobs will duel it out in spring training for (at least) half the time at first. No joke.
Also, as Adam Rubin noted this morning, Jacobs will either make the team or be released/traded/cut. The only other spot for him would be as a backup/DH-type off the bench, and frankly, he’s not a very good pinch hitter.
This Jacobs signing really makes little to no sense to me. Murphy should be the heavy favorite barring an abysmal spring training. Rob Neyer doesn’t quite understand it, either.
But here we are, days away from pitchers and catchers reporting and I’m playing out situations of Jacobs being the first baseman in 2010.
Is there a chance Jacobs makes the team and is paired with Tatis at first base? Sure. Do I expect it to happen? No way.
