Poll: Who should be the starting second baseman?

With Luis Castillo gone, the question needs to be asked, “Who should be the Mets second baseman when Opening Day rolls around?”

Vote below…

Goodbye, Luis Castillo

Happy trails, Slappy Castillo.

Anyone else get the feeling he’ll catch on with the Phillies (with Chase Utley’s knee issues) and come back to bite the Mets in the butt multiple times this season? No? Just me?

Mets Media Madness: It’s coming…

Voting starts Monday.

St. Patrick’s Day Mets hats [Photo]

Here are the hats the Mets will be wearing in honor of St. Patrick’s Day today…

That is the scariest Mr. Met I have ever seen.

I didn’t think they could design uglier hats than the ones they’ve worn the last few years, but, they’ve proved me wrong.

Terrifying.

Quote from Collins–3/16

“We're going to make some moves here pretty soon.”

-Terry Collins on 2B

OK, I’m ready for baseball

Fun with spring training stats

Spring training stats mean nothing, so why not take a look at some of the more peculiar numbers…

• Nick Evans leads the team with 41 at bats.
• Luis Hernandez, who is “in the second base mix,” has only 12 ABs.  He also has five hits.
• Josh Thole has 13 hits. Lucas Duda and Scott Hairston have 11 each.
• Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Scott Hairston, Angel Pagan and Josh Thole each have two home runs.
• Davis, Thole and Daniel Murphy have each driven in six runs.
• Jason Bay, Nick Evans and Zach Lutz have each struck out 10 times.
• R.A. Dickey has allowed 13 hits in 12 innings, both the most for a Mets pitcher.
• Chris Capuano, Taylor Tankersley and Chris Young have each allowed two home runs.
• Oliver Perez – unsurprisingly – has walked five batters, leading the Mets in free passes.
• Jon Niese has stuck out 10 batters. Ryota Igarashi is second on the team, striking out 9.

Check out the spring training stats here. Any good tidbits I missed?

SI: No Joy In Metsville

Mets fans are realists. They know that an NL East title is unlikely this year, what with the Phillies having acquired every big-name pitcher except Koufax and Gibson. All we—er,they—really want at the moment is a stable franchise that doesn't need overdraft protection at the bank and a season that doesn't feature another strange calamity that leaves everyone around the league shaking their heads. To be a Mets fan is to cling tenuously to sanity, desperate for nothing as much as 162 games of normalcy.

-Phil Taylor

Read it all here.

Talk about a click-bait of a headline

Headline: Johan Santana's season in jeopardy for the Mets

Second paragraph: One member of the Mets’ organization said that the team is ready to shut down the rehabilitation schedule for Santana if he does not feel comfortable after what is expected to be a simple session of playing catch.

Give me a break, MSM. You’re worse than some bloggers out there with these headlines and crazily sourced info.

Awful.

Quote from Collins–3/10

“I talked to Ollie today and told him we had decided we think the place where he would probably help us the most is being a situational lefty. He said he understood, and he's going to do the best he can to help us in the bullpen.”

-Terry Collins on Oliver Perez