Jul
7
2011

Mets To Place Reyes On DL, Evans Headed To Los Angeles

An article by Hojo's Mojo

According to Ed Coleman of WFAN, Nick Evans is on his way from Triple-A Buffalo to Los Angeles. The move could mean that the Mets intend to place shortstop Jose Reyes on the disabled list, although no official decision has been made yet by the Mets.

Reyes has yet to do any running drills and he told reporters that he doesn’t expect to run today either, which is when the Mets expected him to beginning running drills.

Prior to yesterday’s game, Sandy Alderson told reporters that Jose Reyes agent, Peter Greenberg, would like the doctor who performed Jose’s surgery in 2009 to view the MRI on his injured left hamstring. He had this to say:

“Based on that combination of Jose’s progress on a daily basis. And, the joint conclusions of our physicians, and the second opinion we will make a decision on Jose. I don’t think it will be made today, but we are getting to the point where we will be able to make a decision in the next day or two.”

Jose Reyes has told the team that there has been no improvement and seems very hesitant to push it and risk further injury.

“We have to see what is going to be the best-case scenario for me,” Reyes said. “If I have to go (on the DL), if I really need to go, I have to do it.”

Surprisingly so, the Mets have won four straight games since Reyes went down and are now three games over .500 for the first time since July 23, 2010.

Meanwhile, Mike Puma of the NY Post reports that the Mets intend to engage in secret in-season negotiations with Reyes in an attempt to sign Reyes before the end of this season.

Don’t be so sure the Mets are waiting until after the season to talk turkey with Jose Reyes. Multiple sources with knowledge of the process told The Post yesterday that indications are the Mets have begun — or will soon begin — secret talks with the Reyes camp in hopes of reaching agreement in the coming weeks on a new contract with the All-Star shortstop.

I’ll update this post as soon as the Mets report something official later today.

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3 Comments + Add Comment

alex68 July 7, 2011 at 9:25 am

damn it!!!! thank goodness this team is showing fight, collins has this team believeing in each other, hopefully reyes can come back healthy and with no issues whatsover..
with wright also looming and maybe santana, who knows, we can add pieces and keep fighting till the end.. hopefully with better results than in 2007-2008
nathan July 7, 2011 at 11:01 am

I am so freaking glad that Jose is not being pushed out there before they are absolutly sure he is OK. That was one of my bigest gripes of the last administration. As far as the talks, we will see. I’d love to see something get done. The Team is looking better each and every day Ican’t help but notice how the team has came together in the absence of some big guys. If this is what Terry Collins brings to the table then Sand is a genious because this team needed this badly. For the first time since 06 they look like a team. This is the most fun i’ve had watching them play in a long time. Win or lose they are fun to watch. I was scared that the team was going to stink the place up this year and lose more attendance and spiral out of contention for the next few years instead it looks like they have a base to build from and will continue to get better over the nex few years. Here’s hoping that the ownership issues don’t interfere with Sandy’s plans for next year and beyond. Go Mets
Metsie July 7, 2011 at 2:06 pm

Considering the past history of the NYM medical staff I am certainly glad Jose’s Agent decided he should go outside for a medical opinion.

Putting Reyes on the DL may seem like bad news but if you ask me it is good news in one respect.

It stops him from going to the ASG and possibly doing something dumb to make it worse. and it means he is going to get a half a month to rest us at minimum which can’t be a bad thing since we need reyes for the end run more than we do this particular stretch of baseball.

As for the secret negotiations there is a two week stretch where Jose doesn’t have to worry about taking his mind off baseball so he can discuss things with his agent.
I don’t expect much to come of it other than some ballpark number that we need to hit to get him to re-sign.

But don’t let this report fool you into thinking Sandy has decided to keep Reyes here. He would like to but that doesn’t mean he will and if the negotiations go in a direction or a number that Sandy really doesn’t like, expect reyes to be traded!

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