The Mets looked formidable in their spring training action on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, it didn’t provide much information for us, since the Mets had more or less their starting MLBers facing a combination of players who will split their time between Pawtucket and Portland in 2011.
Still, there were some things we could glean from the afternoon …
A few notes regarding yesterdays televised exhibition “split squad” game between the Mets and Cardinals …
Oliver Perez was
Hope springs eternal, they say, and spring training hopes … er, something. Anyway I thought it might be fun to take a look back at a random Mets spring training of the past. In this case, I chose 1991. What was happening in Port St. Lucie? For starters, Sid Fernandez reported to camp overweight, Mackey … Read more
Well that didn’t last long … Any hope of getting through an entire week without mentioning a financial issue ended quickly when on Tuesday it was reported that the Mets were seeking another loan to cover basic operating expenses — and that MLB was pressuring JP Morgan to give the team a line of credit. … Read more
Now that Carlos Beltran is a right fielder — a position he’s never played in MLB before — I thought it would be helpful to post some pointers. The truth is, playing right field is easy, you know. You can be awkward, you can be slow. Just ask Peter, Paul, and Mary.
In case you missed it, Carlos Beltran announced that he would move to RF permanently, and allow Angel Pagan to spend the rest of spring training getting ready to play centerfield. A classy move by Beltran, who did not look great in center after coming off the DL last year, and is clearly still affected … Read more
As if the Mets needed another lawsuit, it appears that the lawyer for a kosher hot dog vendor is suing the Mets for banning the sale of franks on Friday nights. Oy vey! I’m not sure why the Mets would prevent a concessionaire from selling, particularly in this case, where a glatt kosher company — … Read more
Since the Mets are playing the Nats today, I thought this article was appropriate: Dan Daly of the Washington Post did a boxscore-by-boxscore study of shortstop Ian Desmond’s errors, and found that they weren’t really that big of a deal. Desmond has received a lot of flak for making 34 errors, but Daly discovered they … Read more
