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ESPNNewyork.com's Adam Rubin is reporting that Mets sources have told him that Shortstop Jose Reyes will start the season on the disabled list. While he's been rehabbing furiously in camp since being cleared to do baseball activites, Rubin reports the Mets' brass wants to take it slow.
Reyes is eligible to come off the DL on April 11 against Washington. That's the 6th game of the regular season.
3/31/10
Rubin: Murphy will start season on DL
Adam Rubin is reporting that Daniel Murphy will start the season on the disabled list. He is expected to miss two to three weeks.
Update: Brian Costa says the injury could sideline him up to six weeks.
Update 2: It’s a Grade 1 sprain of his right MCL.
Mike Jacobs will likely start at first base while Murphy is out. Fernando Tatis and maybe even Chris Carter might see time.
Rubin: Mets HoF to open Monday
All the more reason I will not be going to Opening Day.
It’ll be a madhouse.
Murphy in question for OD, Misch to Buffalo
Daniel Murphy was just spotted leaving the Mets facility in street clothes and visibly limping. Rich Coutinho “seriously doubts” he will play Opening Day.
Also, Pat Misch has cleared waivers and will report to Triple-A Buffalo.
Three tidbits to look forward to [Quotes]
Quick and dirty quotes from three different articles.
Sources: Santana to start Opening Day by Adam Rubin
New York Mets ace Johan Santana will oppose Florida right-hander Josh Johnson on Opening Day, but manager Jerry Manuel has tweaked the rest of his rotation after a string of underperformances, team sources said.
I wasn’t worried that Santana would miss OD, but I guess this is reassuring for those with tickets.
Top 10 for '10: What I'm most looking forward to this season by Tom Verducci
10. The surprise team
Fourteen teams had losing records last year. One of them will be in the playoffs this year. How do I know this? Of the 120 playoff teams in the wild card era, 30 of them had a losing record in the previous season. That's 25 percent of your playoff teams, or an average of one turnaround team in each league each year. There has been at least one turnaround team in the playoffs every year but one in the 15 wild card seasons.
Verducci tabs the Mets as one of the teams to keep an eye on for this spot.
NL East Preview: A Steady Reign by Albert Chen
Prospects like 23-year-old first baseman Ike Davis and 22-year-old center fielder Fernando Martinez brightened an otherwise gloomy Mets camp as they sliced up opposing pitchers and gave hope to an injury-cursed team.
Chen also picks the Mets to finish 4th with a 79-83 record.
Yay?
Lennon on Green in Buffalo
David Lennon is doing a live chat right now (you can use your one free page view to join in) and I asked this question:
How many dinners will Sean Green be buying in Buffalo? He'll be making nearly $1 mil and playing in Triple-A. How long until he comes back up / is traded?
Here’s Lennon’s response:
For the Bisons sake, hopefully there is an Outback or Carrabas in Buffalo. Seeing the state of the Mets pen, they may call up Green sooner rather than later. I don't see him being traded.
Manuel’s Musing
“For some reason, I just feel that
everything is going to be all right.”
-Jerry Manuel on the season
Um, Chris Carter?
Daniel Murphy has been diagnosed with a sprained right knee. He is listed as day-to-day.
Everyone and their mother is going bonkers and calling for Ike Davis to be called up to replace him. What about Chris Carter?
I know Carter isn’t the homegrown prospect that Davis is and Davis already looks to be the future of first base with the organization, but I still maintain that he needs to get steady playing time every day. Carter, on the other hand, could be used right now. There’s not as much riding on Carter’s ability. If he hits, he hits. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t.
If the Mets call up Ike Davis and put him on the 25-man Opening Day roster, what’s the guarantee he gets steady playing time? If Mike Jacobs is on the team, which seems all the more likely now, who’s to say they won’t split time?
For now, I would pencil in Carter to replace Murphy. Let Davis go to Triple-A and refine his game. I’m all for the future, but the future doesn’t have to be right now.
3/30/10
Did the ESPN hammer already fall on Adam Rubin? (Updated)
Update: Rubin is back to tweeting today. In fact, he sent nearly the exact same tweet early this morning.
With the launch of ESPNNewYork.com a few days away, Rich Coutinho, who covers the Mets for ESPN 1050 tweeted the new account for Adam Rubin, who left the New York Daily News to join ESPN New York.
The account, @AdamRubinESPN, already has 404 followers in roughly three hours.
Rubin greeted his new followers with a kind thanks and tweeted that the Web site launches Friday.
A half-hour later, Rubin sent another tweet from his BlackBerry, reading: “Not supposed to start yet but some tidbits: Rotation shuffle/Pelfrey not starting Game 2; Santos and F-Mart to AAA; Acosta claimed for Bisons”
But when clicking through to that tweet a few minutes later while I was preparing to write something about Mike Pelfrey being bumped, I was directed to this page, telling me that “This page does not exist!”
Going back to Rubin’s Twitter page, the second tweet he sent, where he mentioned he “wasn’t supposed to start yet” had been deleted. Below is the screengrab from my TweetDeck, for evidence…
Either Rubin pulled it himself or the suits behind ESPN New York got him to pull it, we may never know. But ESPN New York hasn’t even launched yet and we’re already seeing the tightening of the leash.
Waiver Wire: Mets pick up Acosta, place Misch
The Mets have added Manny Acosta off the waiver wire from the Atlanta Braves. He has been placed on the 40-man roster and optioned to Triple-A Buffalo, according to Brian Costa.
Acosta, who has pitched for the Braves for the last three seasons, went 1-1 with a 4.34 ERA and 1.714 WHIP in 37 1/3 innings over 36 games in 2009.
Also, the Mets have placed pitcher Pat Misch on waivers. If he clears, he will be assigned to Triple-A Buffalo, but can be picked up by another team.
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