FOXSports.com’s Dayn Perry Likes The Mets In The NL East
FOXSports.com’s Dayn Perry explains why we should expect the Mets to emerge from NL East pack.
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Graves Still Not Quite A Met – But Almost
Danny Graves wore a Mets uniform (no. 32), pitched batting practice (to batter Ramon Castro) and received a hug from Pedro Martinez but is still not officially a Met. Graves agents and the Mets are still working out the particulars of the 2006 portion of his contract. As soon as those details are worked out you’ll see Graves wearing a Mets uniform in a game and not just for BP.
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Piazza Injured
Mike Piazza was hit by a foul ball in the top of the first and was out of the game when his turn came up in the batting order at the bottom of the inning. Ramon Castro replaced him and hit a double (his first extra base hit of the season) in the bottom of the first to knock in the only Mets run of the game. X-rays on Piazza’s left wrist were negative and he’s been diagnosed with a contusion on the wrist but I haven’t seen any follow up notes on his condition or how the Mets plan to work around it. They have Mike DiFelice at Norfolk and could bring him should Piazza need to go on the DL or if they choose to go with 3 catchers. I’m thinking that both of those scenarios are unlikely and that Piazza will be rested a few days with Castro starting and that Piazza will be back in the starting lineup soon. I’ll keep you posted.
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No Victor-y This Time
Click here for a recap of last night’s game.
The Mets suffered a 4-1 loss at the hands of Brandon Backe and the Houston Astros. VÃctor Zambrano started for the Mets and sfter retiring his first 10 batters he fell apart. But even so his teammates should have been able to pick up after his 6 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 2 BB performance. Even though Zambrano suffered a meltdown it was the failing of the offense, not the pitching that lost this game. The Mets left 11 baserunners on base. The just couldn’t hit with runners on base and were abysmal when they were in scoring position. What else is new?
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A No-No?? No!
Click here for a recap of last night’s game.
Denied again. Going into the 7th inning last night it looked like Pedro Martinez might do what no other Mets pitcher has ever done: throw a no hitter. But then Chris Burke came to bat and there went that. Pedro ended up having to settle with a 2 hitter (Lance Berkman got the other one) as the Mets beat the Astros 3-1.
Cliff Floyd got hot when he was hit by Astros starter Roy Oswalt in the seventh inning. Floyd gave Oswalt a tongue lashing but exercised restraint by not charging the mound. Floyd would later say he believed that Oswalt git him on purpose. Floyd’s belief dates back to last year when he hit a grand slam off Oswalt and Oswalt retaliated in a later game by throwing at Floyd. Floyd also had 2 hits against Oswalt last night and has enjoyed a .385 average against Oswalt (in 13 at bats).
But the star of the game was obviously Pedro who also struck out 12 batters to go above the 100 k mark on the season. He leads the majors with 104 this year.
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Graves Not Quite A Met Yet
Marty Noble at mlb.com reports that Danny Graves worked out for the Mets at Shea today. Noble says that Graves has not yet signed but can be expected to be in uniform by the end of the week.
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More Sidebar Content
In case you haven’t noticed I’ve added yet more functionality to what is slowly becoming the worlds longest blog sidebar. I also changed the order in which some of the sidebar content appears in an effort to get some of the more relevant things higher up on the page. I’ve added Standings (under Archives) and placed the ML Scoreboard and Upcoming Games sections just below it. The Links section down is now after Upcoming games.
You also may have noticed that recent posts have Technorati tags at the end. These tags are being used to create the blob diagram toward the bottom of the sidebar. This diagram will eventually show the ten most used Technorati tags for the last 60 days. Currently it only shows for the last ten or so posts since that’s how long I’ve been tagging posts. The biger and darker the link is in the diagram, the more often it’s been used. The smaller and lighter the link is, the less it’s been used. Why do I have this? For one thing it looks techy cool. For another it gives me (and my readers) and idea of what I’ve been writing about.
I hope you enjoy this new content. As usual you can feel free to let me know what you think via the comments link below and email.
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Graves Signs With Mets?
According to a report on ESPN.com the Mets have signed Danny Graves.
I’ll have more on this when there’s official confirmation.
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D-Day for Graves
According to a report by Ken Rosenthal the Atlanta Braves have dropped out of the Danny Graves sweepstakes. That leaves the Mets and the Florida Marlins the last two teams in the race. Rosenthal says Graves will sign with one of the two teams today. I think it would be great if the Mets got Graves. He saved 41 games last year and I can’t believe that he’s lost that much stuff in such a short period of time. The team that signs him only has to pay him a pro-rated portion of the minimum salary (the Reds are responsible for the rest of his 2005 salary) so if an option for next year would be enough to get him then they should. If he demands an outright extension then I’d try to get him with a one year, incentive laden extension. If he can get his act together then the Mets will have someone on the staff that will allow them to dump current closer Braden Looper on some unsuspecting team.
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Profiles From An Off Day
With the day off yesterday and nothing real in the news there’s really not much for me to write about. However, there are several good articles in the newspapers today about the boys from Shea so here’s a sampling:
- Mets’ Wright Has It All Except an Attitude – Lee Jenkins, NY Times
- Mets: Randolph feels Wright is where he belongs
– Colin Stephenson, Star-Ledger - Righty’s Pitching and Personality Steal N.Y. Spotlight – Kevin Kernan, NY Post
- Roller-coaster ride for Floyd – Anthony Rieber, Newsday
- Cameron goes from zero to hero – Steve Popper, NorthJersey.com
- Reyes’ growth a bonus for Mets – Peter Abraham, Journal News
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