This team when it comes to handling injuries is just horrible.  We saw it last year with Ryan Church’s concussion in Atlanta.  The Mets gave him a game off, flew him to Colorado and had him playing while suffering a concussion.  It was a major setback to the season as Church was not the same player when he came back after finally being put on the disabled list. This year in Spring Training there were [...]

Buffalo 1, Lehigh Valley 2 Oliver Perez. That’s about all you need to know tonight. Ollie was Ollie, walking 5 in 4.1 innings, including one with the bases loaded and one to the opposing pitcher. He threw just 48 of 88 pitches for strikes and took the loss, despite giving up just a run on 3 hits. The Bisons severely depleted offense managed just 7 hits and a run, while going 0 for 7 with [...]

Buffalo 8, Lehigh Valley 7 Dillon Gee had a rough outing today, snapping a streak of 3 good starts in his last 4 (those 3 good starts totalling 20.1 innings, 12 hits, 2 earned runs, 7 walks and 16 Ks). Today, he gave up 4 hits and 4 runs in 4 innings. Brandon Knight also had a bad outing, giving up 3 runs on 6 hits in 3.2 innings, but the Bisons overcame the poor [...]

I have to say that I was rather disappointed with this road trip. I know! I know! They lost one-fourth of their roster. Still, I feel the Mets should’ve really gotten on a winning streak here. They did well against the San Francisco Giants. I’ll take three out of four from them. They were up against a Dodgers team that was without Manny Ramirez. The Mets beat themselves during that series. There was no reason [...]

Buffalo 5, Columbus 3 Fernando Nieve had a second straight good outing in AAA, again giving up 2 runs in 6 innings, and again picking up the win. Elmer Dessens gave up a run in the 9th, but picked up his 4th save of the season. The Bison offense had 8 hits and 2 walks, and also took advantage of an error in scoring 5 runs. They were 3 for 10 with RISP and left [...]

Buffalo 4, Columbus 3 Jon Switzer allowed a run in the top of the 8th, blowing the save, but Javier Valentin’s solo shot in the bottom of the inning gave the Bisons the win. Elmer Dessens picked it up with 1.2 perfect innings in relief, he now has an eye popping 0.79 era for Buffalo. Nelson Figueroa started and was very good, allowing just 2 runs on 7 hits in 6 innings, but got a [...]

The Mets defense keeps finding themselves in all sorts of predicaments when Santana is on the mound. Seven unearned runs as a result of 11 errors behind Johan. Usually you rely a team’s defense to bail the pitcher out of a jam. In Santana’s case, it’s the pitcher who bails his team out of their jams. That’s how good Santana is. The Mets keep putting Johan in harm’s way and he battles back every time to get himself, [...]

 Every time I think Johan Santana cannot be any more brilliant or magic, he does something else that leaves me slack jawed all over again. And I’m not talking about his jawing with Youkilis or coming back to strike that turkey out after hitting him with what looked like a strike (Talk about Youkilis positioning himself like Ron Hunt)! I’m talking about the man’s indefatigable capacity to flick off the blunders of his infield, and [...]

Every team in the NL East opens an interleague series against the AL East, with the Marlins and Nationals drawing their regional rival. (Record in past week; games back) Atlanta Braves: (3-3; -2.5) The Braves split two games with Arizona, as the third of their series last weekend was rained out. The Braves then split a four game series with the Colorado Rockies. The Braves will open a three game interleague series with the MLB-leading [...]

Buffalo 4, Columbus 10 Jon Niese got absolutely blitzed tonight, giving up 12 hits and 9 runs (7 earned) in 3.2 innings, in what was his worst professional outing. The offense did manage a whole 4 runs on 8 hits and 7 walks, but Niese gave them no chance at anything. Cory Sullivan, Fernando Martinez and Rene Rivera had multi hit games, while Willy Mo Pena (0 for 5, .213), Javier Valentin (0 for 2, [...]