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2012
Sunday Mets Notes: Wright Out Indefinitely, Hairston Sidelined With Oblique, Intrasquad Lineups
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Updated Sunday AM
This morning, Sandy Alderson told reporters David Wright has continued discomfort in his left rib cage, and will not play again until he’s asymptomatic. According to Adam Rubin, the Mets are treating this very conservatively in part because of Scott Hairston straining an oblique muscle in Saturday’s intrasquad game. Wright was scratched from Saturday’s intrasquad because of soreness on his left side (rib cage) which has been bothering him since Monday. Yesterday, he played down the soreness and said if it was a real game, he would have played.
Here are the starting lineups for today’s intrasquad game, which starts at 10:45 am.
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Team Blue
1. Juan Lagares LF
2. Justin Turner 2B 3. Mike Baxter RF 4. Kirk Nieuwenhuis CF 5. Zach Lutz 3B 6. Valentino Pascucci 1B 7. Rob Johnson C 8. Ronny Cedeno SS 9. Lucas May DH Jonathon Niese LHP |
Team Orange
1. Matt Den Dekker CF
2. Vinny Rottino 3B 3. Josh Satin 1B 4. Cesar Puello RF 5. Adam Loewen LF 6. Jordany Valdespin 2B 7. Omar Quintanilla SS 8. Mike Nickeas C 9. Mike Pelfrey RHP |
Updated Saturday PM
Scott Hairston was removed from Saturday’s intrasquad game after striking out looking against Chris Schwinden to end the first inning of Saturday’s intrasquad game. Hairston later said he has a strained left oblique, the same injury that saw him end the season on the disabled list. as last year. He is expected to get a cortisone injection Monday. Hairston was re-signed as a fourth outfielder for $1.1 million this offseason. The thing about oblique injuries is that they sometimes take a long time to heal.
In what was his final tuneup before Tuesday’s Grapefruit League game against the St. Louis Cardinals in Port St. Lucie, Johan Santana threw a 40-pitch bullpen session today, It was his first activity since he threw batting practice to Mets hitters on Thursday.
After being forced to stop throwing batting practice on Friday because of pain on his right side, pitching prospect Robert Carson got a good diagnosis from the Mets medical staff. Carson suffered a mild intercostal strain which required an injection, and will be able to resume light tossing as soon as today.
Former Met Frank Viola has been named the Savannah Sand Gnats pitching coach, after serving in that capacity with the Brooklyn Cyclones last year.
Here is a surprising development… The Mets haven’t eliminated the possibility of keeping Kirk Nieuwenhuis as a spare outfielder on the Opening Day roster, according to Mike Puma of the New York Post. Captain Kirk showed off his power yesterday when he belted a two-run homer during yesterday’s intrasquad game. “He’s got great skills, and he plays the game the way you want it played,” Terry Collins would later say about Nieuwenhuis.
Finally, Team Blue beat Team Orange, 4-1 in today’s intrasquad game. Bay, Pascucci, Murphy, Davis and Duda all doubled. Dickey pitched two scoreless innings, while Beato and Carrasco got smacked around pretty good.
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Carrasco got smacked around? You’re kidding, right? No way…
I really hope he is cut before the season starts.
Saw where Dickey rated his performance today as 6 out of 10. Said he feels a little rusty yet.
Here’s hoping he gets off to a better start than last season – although I think some of that might have been that split fingernail he had?
No setbacks yet with Santana. Will still be surprised if that shoulder/arm is up to speed enough to start the season.
And so it begins, just heard the news on Ike.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7642723/new-york-mets-treating-1b-ike-davis-valley-fever
Smh.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/39238/ike-discusses-valley-fever
Read the latest
Every day I subtract one win from the Mets record. By the time the season starts my stats show a 60 win season or less. Let’s face it, we are the Astros of the NL East.
Why so disrespectful to the Astros?
Really? Wright out indefinitely, Hairston re-injures the same side that ended his 2011 season, and now Davis may have something called “Valley Fever”? Seriously, when is this going to end for the Mets? What’s next, Lucas Duda pulls a rib cage muscle launching a mammoth home run and will miss 6 weeks? Or maybe Jon Niese pulls a hammy covering 1B on a routine drill? It’s like 2009 all over again. The Mets are living Bill Murray’s “Groundhog Day” for real.
You have to wonder just how great Ike feels if they went out of their way to send him to NY for testing and blood tests!
He says he feels fine, but obviously he didn’t because you don’t leave camp and fly to NY for testing when you feel FINE!
I note a severe lack of mention of exactly what symptoms he has that point to this being Valley Fever!
They sent him to NY b/c abnormalities (I think on his chest X-ray) showed up when he took his physical at the start of ST. So they send him to have additional testing to determine the potential cause.
Thanks LG so they saw something on his Xray (possibly) and thats triggered it, then that makes more sense and maybe he DOES feel fine!
Wouldn’t it be cheaper and faster for the Mets to contract with a Florida medical facility while they are at spring training and if they don’t like Florida doctors and specialists , fly in your team doctor. With an elderly population that is prone to bone issues and releated and other injuries I would think Florida has some of the very best docotors in their fields in the nation. Just a thought, but all this flying back and forth to NY makes no sense to me.
NO, They already pay the doctors in NY and New Doctors are way more expensive than a plane ticket!
Besides you don’t want to go out of your own medical system as a sports team, Thats how injury stuff gets leaked to your competition!
I am sure you’re right but I bet it is in the contract that the team medical team must be used to determine whether a player can play and how long they’ll be out. Didn’t Carlos Beltran and A Rod (went to a doctor in Canada) cause a big furor when they went to a doctor outside the clubs’ system?
No I don’t think they are contractually forced to use team doctors and you see players getting second opinions all the time.
I think the team wanted him to see THEIR doctors in this case not some guy they don’t know or don’t pay.
Truth is there are lots of reasons teams pay their own doctors, some are good, and some are truly bad especially considering our team’s past medical history!
The team likes control over the doctors and what they say and it has been the practice for a long time that the doctor tells the player exactly what the team wants him to hear!
If Ike had seen a local doctor who knows they might have even cured him as opposed to nthis rest up approach that seems to be the treatment always used by the current met medical staff!
The new Cardinal for the Catholic church said yesterday at Hicksville NY that the Yankees asked him to throw out the first pitch. But the Mets when contacting Wilpon asked him to perform the last rites. Maybe he should as they all go down.
f-mart 2-2, hr, 2b, 3 rbi
good thing the mets kept carrasco!
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Not that the 1st game in ST means all that much but still when you think about our needs and the potential upside…….
The kid is still just 22. I would have really preferred to just give him a sink or swim year in 2012 just to be sure.