16
2011
For Whom The Beltran Tolls, There Is No Good Ollie, Good Luis/Bad Luis?
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LAST NIGHT’S GAME:
The Mets topped Washington, 5-2, in Port St. Lucie last night…Chris Young worked 5.1 innings, allowed four hits and one run…Ike Davis was 2-3 with three RBI while David Wright was 2-2 with two runs scored and a stolen base…Francisco Rodriguez closed out the game to earn the save with a scoreless ninth…Oliver Perez worked 0.2 innings, allowing only a walk to pick up his second win of the spring.
WHO’S HOT:
The Mets have won three of their last four games…IKE DAVIS is batting .360 (9-25) with two home runs and a team leading nine RBI…TAYLOR BUCHHOLZ has not permitted an earned run in 8.0 innings…MIKE O’CONNOR has not allowed a run in his four spring appearances (3.0 innings)…DANIEL MURPHY is hitting .324 (11-34) with seven RBI…JOSH THOLE leads the team with 13 hits this spring.
Thanks to the Mets for these daily Mets Notes they send us.
Now to some serious business… The following are my notes, and not from the Mets.
BELTRAN IS PALYING BASEBALL AGAIN, I THINK:
Mets camp is all a buzz with the news that Carlos Beltran has resumed baseball activities. That is Mets-Speak for being able to take 25 swings in the batting cage without grimacing.
Can Beltran play in the field? No. Can Beltran play catch? No. Can Beltran run the bases? No. Can Beltran swing from the left side? No. Can Beltran throw? No. Can Beltran slide? No.
But rest assured he is participating in all the other baseball activities he has resumed.
Are we still going to keep up the pretense that Carlos Beltran will be in the Opening Day lineup?
Apparently so. Terry Collins said Beltran only needs ten days to be ready and everything is just hunky-dory.
Alderson isn’t worried either. Beltran is a well conditioned athlete who is doing things to ensure that he will be there come Opening Day and last the entire season, he says.
Oh, I guess I’m just flaky and a bit dense because I thought that being he has never played rightfield in his whole career, that he might want to get in there and get some reps before he’s set to play the second most difficult rightfield in the majors for the next six months… But that’s just me.
Three at-bats as a DH, and eleven days later he is still on the mend. Oh brother…
SECOND BASE MISH MOSH:
So this second base drama has become the gift that keeps on giving it seems. Yesterday, Collins had ample opportunity to snuff out the story that Luis Hernandez would be the opening day second baseman. But regardless of how everyone is spinning it, he didn’t do that. In fact, he clinched it for me.
He will have to play nice with Luis Castillo a little while longer, but he will get his wish in the end and Castillo will be cut.
Early season favorite Brad Emaus muffed up a double play ball and was charged with an error yesterday. I don’t know if he was doing his best Daniel Murphy impression or if he really just sucks in the field too. I’m pretty sure it’s the latter.
Don’t worry Terry… Sooner or later one of these second basemen will turn a clean double play this spring.
Huh? What’s that you say? Hernandez already turned in two of them in only half the number of games played?
Well by all means sign him up, we can use a good glove like that.
GOOD OLLIE DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE:
So have you heard the good news?
Reportedly, Oliver Perez looked great in yesterday’s relief appearance getting two outs and not allowing a run.
Great my BUTT!
He walked the first batter he saw, and fell behind the next two batters (3-2, 3-1) before finally retiring them.
Do we really want to see Perez coming into a critical spot in the game to face one batter when he walks close to a third of the batters he faces?
How can ANYONE with a walk rate like Oliver Perez ever be considered as a candidate for lefty specialist? This couldn’t even happen in Bizarro World.
About the Author: Joe DeCaro
I'm a lifelong Mets fan who loves writing and talking about the Amazins' 24/7. From the Miracle in 1969 to the magic of 1986, and even the near misses in '73 and '00, I've experienced it all - the highs and the lows. I started Mets Merized Online in 2005 to feed my addiction. Follow me on Twitter @metsmerized.
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Yea Steve Popper is such a moron, he was trying to tell me on twitter last night ollie looked good…HUH?
He faced 3 batters and went 3-2, 3-0 & 2-0…you call falling behind like that looking good??? If this was the regular season imagine what would have happened???
-Pilam76
of course, any metsie has to bad mouth someone with their own opinion. it is against metsie law to say anything not bad about op. metise fans are without doubt the worst in the world and deserve their horrible team, horrible owner and horrible gms.
What you are seeing is the Mets trying to put every thing that is bad in a good light. I disagree with you that they will cut Castillo. They will hold their noses and trot him out to 2B on OD, you can bank on it. Here is my question on the second base thing. Why was Hu guaranteed a spot? What the hell has he done to deserve such respect? Isn’t Tejada a better choice to backup Reyes and second base? Or even Hernandez? I just don’t see what the front office loves about Hu. Maybe in a future post you can tell me.
Isn’t Tejada a better choice to backup Reyes and second base?
This is just my opinion, but I think the Mets believe Tejada can be an everyday player, so they want to let him get a full season of playing every day in AAA (which makes sense, he’s a young kid and I swore he was 14 years old when I first saw him step up to bat).
Hu, out of all of the rest of them, has the best reputation at D, so he’d be the late-game defensive swap for the infield.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I could’ve swore I read somewhere that there may be a racial overtone to the Hu signing. With Flushing having a decent size population of Koreans, the front office may have signed Hu in the hopes of drawing more interest/ticket sales/ etc. from a Korean fan base. If that is the case I think the front office did the right thing (signing a defensively talented middle infielder) for the wrong reason. Hu is supposed to be defensively gifted though it looks like he swings a rolled up wet newspaper at the plate.
I hope not. Thats just stupid pandering that we’ve seen fail before.
LOL Loved the “Can Beltran do this” stuff Joe D.
2 wins for Ollie in ST. That’s only one less than he won in the last 2 years. I guess that’s why it’s referred to as SPRING TRAINING.
another metsie fool who can only be a nasty person. poor metsies, just because its hard to be a fan of a laughingstock doesn’t mean you have to be so nasty…. life is tough for the few reamining little metsies.
I always imagine you looking and sounding like Smeagol when I read your posts. It’s the silver lining of having to look at your drivel.
‘reamining’???
Stay in school, kid.
You calling someone nasty is pretty funny. Go away little child
My bet is Beltran starts the season on the DL.
Does anyone think that maybe Brad Emaus us booting these plays intentionally, so that maybe he does not make the roster and gets sent back to toronto. I mean, I know in the back of every rookies head they want to make the big club, but the Mets certainly have a stockpile of 2B and SS waiting in the wings and perhaps he sees his playing time to be sparse with the Mets where Toronto might provide more playing time and a faster path to the majors.
Just a thought…
I can say that is something I was not thinking about.
If it could be proven to be true that would speak so poorly about him that I would think no team would want him.
I just think Emaus isn’t that good. He had good numbers in the minors, so he was worth a look. They saw what they had to see, and he should be axed. Hopefully Toronto wouldn’t want him back and he can clear waivers and go to Buffalo. I’d like to see him try and develop becuase his minor league offensive numbers weren’t an accident.
Look at this way: Sparse playing time in a platoon with the Mets vs going back to an organization that didn’t even protect him. Either the Jays don’t think highly of him or their infield is already crowded.