Mets go with UNC’s Harvey

With the seventh overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft, the Mets selected University of North Carolina’s Matt Harvery.

The 6-foot-4 right hander, from Mystic, Conn., went 8-3 with a 3.09 ERA, 102 strikeouts and 35 walks over 96 innings as a junior.

From UNC…

A first-team All-ACC pick and preseason All-America, Harvey ranks ninth all-time in strikeouts (263) and tenth all-time in wins (22) in Carolina history. The Mystic, Conn., native pitched two complete games this season while registering a career-best eight wins.

In 2010, Harvey led the Tar Heels in nearly every statistical pitching category posting 102 strikeouts and a 3.09 ERA in 96 innings pitched. Opponents hit a lowly .224 against the junior, who registered a near 3:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

He also struck out a career-high 15 batters in a complete game on April 23.

Harvey was drafted out of high school by the Los Angeles Angels, but they missed out on signing him when his agent, Scott Boras, passed on their $1.4 million offer.

Guess The Met! [Solved]

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This Met is… CARLOS BELTRAN!

Manuel’s Musing

“[Ruben] Tejada is a young player that right now. I kind of like to pick and choose his battles.”

-Jerry Manuel on Ruben Tejada

Game Recap: Mets 7 – Marlins 6

Sweep.

The Good

Fighting back.  Mets were down 5-0 before rallying back with three in the sixth and three in the seventh.

Chris Carter and Angel Pagan drove in the three runs in the sixth on RBI singles.

Jeff Freakin’ Francoeur.  Ten game hitting streak.  2-4 with a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the game.  Welcome back, first-week Francoeur.

David Wright is also on fire.  3-5 today with a run scored.

Productive double play.  The Mets took the lead in the 8th on a Ike Davis double play.

The Bad & Ugly

Taka’s start.  He let up five earned over 5 1/3 innings.  Walked two.  Not really terrible, but not good either.

Ryota ain’t right.  One inning, allowing one earned on two walks.  Something isn’t right with him.

Can we have a 1-2-3 9th inning, K-Rod?  Please?

Game Ball

Citi Field, because the Mets love the park.

On Deck

Monday is an off-day before the Mets welcome the Padres on Tuesday night, 7:10 p.m.

Manuel’s Musing

“This, purely, is Oliver Perez. Oliver Perez came in and said his knee is bothering him.”

-Jerry Manuel on Oliver Perez’s knee

What I missed

1. Oliver Perez DL’d with right knee patella tendonitis.

It’s bull and we all know it.  But anything that gets Perez to the DL and hopefully thoroughly through the minor leagues, while (again, hopefully) improving his ability as a pitcher is a good thing.  Unlikely, but a good thing.

Jon Niese took Ollie’s roster spot.

2. Mets win 4-3 on Friday night.

R.A. Dickey is awesome.  Three runs and seven hits over seven innings.  I like it.  He also went 2-3 at the plate, driving in one and scoring once.

3. Mets win 6-1 on Saturday afternoon.

Niese came back from the DL and was awesome.  Seven innings, allowing just the one run.  Ike Davis went 4-4, scoring three times.  David Wright went 2-3 with three RBI, including a monster two-run blast off the Acela Club.

The Mets go for the sweep at home today at 1:10 p.m.

GMJ DFA’d, Castillo DL’d, Santos, Tejada up

Luis Castillo, as expected, was sent to the disabled list.

So long, Gary Matthews Jr.  He was designated for assignment to make roster room.

Ruben Tejada is up to take over for Castillo, and is batting 8th tonight.

Omir Santos is up as Henry Blanco is a bit banged up.  Santos takes GMJ’s roster spot.

Manuel’s Musing

“One thing about Murph is that he’s a baseball player.”

-Jerry Manuel on Daniel Murphy

When I first saw this quote, I thought there was more to it or that it was taken out of context.  Or something.  I was wrong.

More bad news for Daniel Murphy

See you in 2011, Murphy.

Guess the Met! [Solved]

The rules are easy: I post a Mets player photo, but only reveal a tiny part of the image.  From there, your goal is to try and guess which player the photo is of.

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Guess this was was way too easy.  Seemingly everyone nailed it.  R.A. Dickey!