Mets Finally Cut Acosta As Turner Heads To DL, Schwinden and Quintanilla Called Up

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• Tracy B May 28, 2012 at 9:59 pm

  HELL YEAH!!! About friggin’ time with the Acosta thing!!! Sucks with Turner though and hope he comes back soon and healthy!
• Even Flow May 28, 2012 at 10:04 pm

  IT’S ABOUT MOTHER****ING TIME!!! This should’ve been a no-brainer dating back to Mother’s Day that this piece of shit be cut loose. It seriously took them this long to do this? Have fun with Carrasco on the unemployment line! Schwinden is coming back? WHY do that when Elvin Ramirez has been flawless thus far? He’d be far more beneficial than Schwinden.
  • Bayonne Mets Fan May 28, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    There’s a few veteran pitchers around the majors the Mets had a chance to sign that can be helping this team just win games.

    Sometimes relying on kids is the wrong thing to do.
    • Metsfan45 May 29, 2012 at 7:38 am

      Well get on the bat phone and call the FO, you are the self proclaimed expert and far smarter than anyone in the Mets front office, why haven’t you mentioned this before?
  • Stick May 28, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    roster issues. Schwinden can be sent back down whenever young or beato comes back (and needs a roster spot) and is already on the 40 man. If they were going to bring up ramirez, they would have to drop another player off the 40 man.

    doesn’t matter if they think he is ready to come up and stay, but they aren’t doing that for a temporary stop over.

    But, if he keeps up the performance, he will be up soon enough. They just are going to have a lot of shuffling in the near term to get guys back on the roster.
• srt May 28, 2012 at 10:42 pm

  Bad luck for Turner.
  But sorry – Manny made his own bad luck. There was just no way Terry could of kept running him out there. Absolutely awful this season. I was more than ready to be seeing this announcement.
• Joey D. May 28, 2012 at 10:55 pm

  It’s ironic that the front office was justifiably concerned about Jose’s health and yet it’s “the replacement to the replacement to his replacement” who have all gone down while Jose is still there filling the hole in Miami. Who would have thunk it?
  • calimetsfan May 29, 2012 at 12:16 am

    Id be willing to bet Reyes plays the entire season. It’s just how things like that go. Kind of like never needing a saving account until you start one. I’m still happy Sandy didn’t take that $100 mil gamble though.
  • Donal May 29, 2012 at 7:46 am

    Up until about 2 weeks ago, all he was doing was filling a hole. He’s still doing that Luis Castillo impression he ended last season with.
  • jessep May 29, 2012 at 9:42 am

    You do realize it is/was concern over his health over the course of a 5-6+ year contract right?

    If you asked the Mets today if they could have signed Jose Reyes to a 3 month contract, I’d be willing to bet they would have said yes.
    • Joey D. May 29, 2012 at 10:22 am

      “You do realize it is/was concern over his health over the course of a 5-6+ year contract right?”

      Jessep,

      Of course I do. I was only thinking about the irony of it all – the one we were justificably worried about (even this season) playing day in and day out while the three we had replace him have all gone down to injury within a month’s time.

      Could it be the manner in which the groundscrew maitains the playing field is actually the cause of most all our injuries dating back to the Shea days? That’s the only explanation I can think of as to why a more brittle Jose is still in there – and what befelled Moises Alou while just casually standing in left.
      • jessep May 29, 2012 at 10:42 am

        “Could it be the manner in which the groundscrew maitains the playing field is actually the cause of most all our injuries dating back to the Shea days?”

        No… probably not. I gotta say, I’ve heard a lot of excuses, never that one. I don’t think the grounds caused Turner to plant awkwardly or for Tejada to stumbled into the bag.

        I think that is a big stretch.

        For me with Jose, I’m not saying its impossible that he spends a year healthy. That would be silly. I’m saying over the course of 6 years, I do not believe the Mets would have gotten the performance worth committing 6 years. That’s all. It’s not to say he’s suddenly a bad player.

        I don’t think Pujols will give the Angels 10 years worth what he got, doesn’t mean I think he’s suddenly not worth having today.

        The Marlins will live and die by their pitching and Giancarlo.

        Despite his health, Reyes is not playing up to his contract right now. He’s hitting .260, has 12 out of his 50 hits go for extra bases, is getting on base 34% of the time, and is playing a pretty weak SS right now with 6 errors.

        Luis Castillo got boo’d for similar play, Carlos Beltran signed a big contract and got boo’d. So I wonder if Mets fans would boo Jose if they had signed him?

        Because there is no way you can tell me he’s on a path toward earning that $100+mil deal right now.
        • Joey D. May 29, 2012 at 1:52 pm

          “I gotta say, I’ve heard a lot of excuses, never that one.”

          Fortunately, that was a little levitiy on my part and not an excuse – if it was, I would never be taken seriously by anybody again.
• Metstheory22 May 29, 2012 at 8:56 am

  Thank goodness it’s over. See ya Acosta.
• Russell Zanca May 29, 2012 at 11:27 am

  What bad luck to be missing Turner. I think he’s a key to Mets’ success this year. Love the way he plays.

  I like the youthfulness, but we’ve got lots of inexperience out there now.

  Let’s see. When do Tejada, Bay, and Thole return? What is best scenario? Figured someone would be back by this week–?
• Angelo May 29, 2012 at 11:55 am

  i like schwinden getting another chance , he can pitch for sure GO SCHWINDEN GO EGBERT