26
2012
Santana Due Back Next Homestand, Baxter Could Join Team In San Francisco
An article by Hojo's Mojo
According to the team, the Mets plan to activate Johan Santana from the disabled list after they return from their 11-game road trip, which begins tonight in Arizona.
Terry Collins said before Wednesday’s game that Santana will start one of the games on either August 8th or 9th against the Miami Marlins at Citi Field.
“He’s going to continue throwing,” Collins said. “Our strength and conditioning coach from the minor leagues is here while we’re gone to keep him on the same routine that he’s going to be on: the long toss for a few more days and then get him on the mound hopefully by the middle of next week. And then after that we’re hoping that he’s back.”
Santana will remain in New York to work out and will not travel with the team on this west coast swing.
The Mets left-hander was having a surprisingly solid season until a sprained right ankle he suffered which caused him to put added pressure on his surgically repaired left shoulder. At least that’s what the Mets are saying.
Some good news on the Mike Baxter front as well. Collins said that Baxter could return by this Monday, when the Mets begin a four-game series in San Francisco.
Baxter, who’s been on the disabled list since June 1st, went down when he slammed into the left-field fence at Citi Field while making the catch that helped preserve Johan Santana’s no-hitter against St. Louis.
He is 4-for-8 with two RBI for Class AAA Buffalo in two games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“The reports so far have been good. He’s swung the bat pretty good,” Collins said. “We might see him by San Francisco.”
It will be nice to have Whitestone Mike back and I would imagine that it might spell the end of the road for Kirk Nieuwenhuis whenever he is activated.
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| Marlins | 22 | 48 | .314 | 19.0 |
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Barring an injury your probably right. Nieuwenhuis may indeed be the odd man out. Now is the time to have a monster series Nieuwenhuis and make that decision that much more difficult.
Two weeks ago I would have been extactic about Santana’s return. Now, it doesn’t even phase me much.
Let’s hope for a quick winning streak to get us back in the race and the fans just plain interested. It will sure be better than us finding things to yell at each other about for the next few months, right gang?
Looking forward to Baxter’s return.
Wish it could be Bay for Baxter when he’s activated…..
Of course you are… He’s one of sandy’s pick ups…
Would you prefer Bay stuck around because he’s an Omar pickup?
SRT’s comment is a good one and if one had some baseball sense, they would agree. This is not a Sandy/Omar comment. It’s a Baxter is better than Bay comment. Put your vitriol 6 shooter down and read without the hate glasses on.
I actually agree with her on this. I’ll take Baxter over Bay any day amigo.
You have got to be kidding me…..
Kirk’s our only decent, proven CF. His defense is better than Torres. Valdespin may have the potential, but he hasn’t played the position for any length of time. I do’nt count Hairston because at best he’s an emergency replacement. Plus, he’s on the trading block.
“His defense is better than Torres.”
I agree. I’d rather see Kirk play CF than Torres but with Baxter being a left-handed bat and the way Spin has been hitting of late. Odds are that Kirk and his lefty bat may be the one sent down.
Torres is not in the team’s future and perhaps he can be part of a trade to a team in contention in need of a backup outfielder.
Torres has no value. he was getting non-tendered until Sandy came along and spared Torres that embarrassment. What do you want to give up for .190 hitter whose defense is in steep decline?
Hi Maniac,
Well, I thought there might be one of the other 29 general managers who would see things in him that Sandy saw…… or calculated…. or determined economic worth.
How come few are mentioning Paul DePodesta in all this? He and Sandy are very close, as indicated in the attached, and I can’t believe he does not share the responsibility with his mentor.
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/11/10/reunited-with-mets-paul-depodesta-and-sandy-alderson-a-classic/
LOL a classic pairing? Like biscuits and gravy, Isolde and Tristan, Abbot and Costello?
Hi Maniac,
Except that Abbott and Costello were genuises in their trade…. and they would probably ask a question about Murhpy’s status (“what’s on second?”) and get an answer about David Wright’s status at third (“I don’t know”) instead.
Sandy is the GM. The man in charge. the genius. The know it all. Why are you and all the Sandy lovers always trying to pass the buck or make excuses for his reign of ineptitude? He doesn’t even provide comedic value.
Hi Amazin,
The argument about how much the baseball genius Alderson has been has been hotly contested and probably will always be. Often, articles are cited as to how he help build the Oakland club. Well, here is an article crediting Bill Rigney. It said: “As an executive he helped build the Oakland A’s three-time pennant winners and world champs of the late 1980s.” The only mention about Sandy Alderson was a quote about Rigney upon his passing:
“He had so much knowledge, but he never talked down to people,” said Sandy Alderson, former A’s GM and now assistant to commissioner Bud Selig.”
http://espn.go.com/classic/s/rigney_bill_remembrance.html
Also notice the article appearing on page eight of the attached newspaper from December, 1982 regarding the A’s and the trade for Carney Lansford. One will note it was Rigney who was at the winter meetings and who made the trade and explained the reasons why. No mention of Sandy Alderson.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19821207&id=SmkeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7MgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4431,2102796
And on page 205 of his autobiography, Juan Marichal talks about who recommended him on become the Director of Scouting for Latin America back in 1984. Guess who that individual was?
http://books.google.com/books?id=7pHtxbfONEgC&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=bill+rigney+on+building+the+oakland+athletics&source=bl&ots=DzOYLyNxnU&sig=yb-GzZOynCkIz4MIAEquM7lL0YE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dIRUMy2NajM6QH75IDgBQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=bill%20rigney%20on%20building%20the%20oakland%20athletics&f=false
Here is a 1986 Sports Illustrated article about the rising sluggers coming up. The first one they mention is Canseco (notice the part about going from skinny to being able lift 400 pound weights? LOL) in which a few members of the Oakland organization are mentioned about what they felt about him. Bill Rigney is included. Sandy Alderson is not.
To be fair, attached is a 1992 article about Canseco when he was traded. It quotes both Alderson and Rigney.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-09-01/sports/1992245069_1_canseco-tom-reynolds-sierra
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1064693/index.htm