The 'Ropolitans

3/6/10

Fun with a week of spring training stats

It’s (early in) spring training, where stats don’t matter and no one cares about wins, so let’s have some fun with stats from a handful of games.

Jason Pridie and Ruben Tejada are tied at the top with 10 AB a piece.
Luis Hernandez leads the team with 11 PA.
Russ Adams leads the team with a 1.000 OBP. 3 singles in 3 AB in two games.
Adams also leads the team in slugging percentage, with a 2.000.
Four players have one home run so far: Russ Adams, Ike Davis, Gary Matthews Jr. and David Wright.
Davis and Pridie lead the team with 4 RBI.
Davis has notched 8 total bases, leading the team. Matthews Jr. trails by one base.
Pridie also leads the team in strikeouts, with 4. Matthews Jr. has 3 and Jason Bay and Luis Hernandez each have K’d twice.
Fernando Tatis is one of eight players to have grounded into a double play so far.
Nelson Figueroa has tossed six innings so far, the most on the team.
Figueroa, Sean Green, Eddie Kunz and Bobby Parnell have each walked three batters. Kunz managed to do that while only notching one out. Green, one more.
Figueroa also leads the team in strikeouts, with eight. Bobby Livingston and Jon Niese each have K’d five.
Parnell has allowed the most total bases, with 11.
Ryota Igarashi has posted the lowest batting average against, with a .100.

And that’s enough meaningless stats for today. Enjoy the warm Saturday.

The Mets play tomorrow at 1:10 p.m. and the game is on WPIX.

Manuel’s Musing

Manuel's Musing “If we continue to see that, we have to have some strong conversations.”

-Jerry Manuel on Jenrry Mejia

3/5/10

Oh my… Just look… [Image]

The Brooklyn Cyclones will be giving this jersey away at their “Jersey? Sure!” Night on July 21…

We're not all like that, I promise.

Why, why, why must my home state have such a bad rep?

All I can do is shake my head.

TV lineup today

Here is the lineup we’ll be able to watch today as the Mets split-squad plays the Marlins in Port St. Lucie. The other half traveled to Jupiter to play the Cardinals.

Angel Pagan – CF
Luis Castillo – 2B
David Wright – 3B
Jason Bay – LF
Daniel Murphy – 1B
Rod Barajas – C
Jesus Feliciano – RF
Luis Hernandez – SS
Kai Gronauer – DH

Slated to pitch: Jon Niese, Jenrry Mejia, Pedro Feliciano, Bobby Parnell, Ryota Igarashi, Elmer Dessens (guess his knee is OK) and Eric Niesen.

Reyes has a thyroid problem?

Jose Reyes has once again been scratched from the Mets lineup and is en route to New York for tests.

According to Adam Rubin, Reyes may have an out of balance thyroid.

It’s worrisome that Reyes has yet another problem, but if it is a thyroid issue, that is usually easily rectified. A pill treatment can usually solve most hyper- or hypothyroid issues.

I actually just had my thyroid tested, too. It involves some (more) bloodwork for Reyes to test the levels in his blood and an ultrasound to see if the thyroid gland is swollen or undersized.

Not encouraging news that Reyes is out once again, but if it is a thyroid issue, the Mets and their fans shouldn’t be too worried.