After the Mets put on a hitting clinic in Sunday’s game, when they scored seven runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the Braves 8-2, they came out flat today and only managed one run on six hits. The Miami Marlins (7-3) beat the Mets (4-6), 11 -1 at Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie. In his first start of the spring, Bartolo Colon tossed four innings, giving up three runs on...
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If there’s anyone in Mets camp who is in desperate need of a change of scenery it’s Ruben Tejada. After the Mets shortstop committed an error and then sailed a throw to first base that kept the Mets from completing a double-play, the SNY booth had this exchange (courtesy of MetsBlog): Hernandez: “I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s in Ruben’s head now, his defensive game.”...
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On Sunday, I read this excellent article by Kevin Kernan of the New York Post who says it’s not easy to silence a strong personality like Matt Harvey. Harvey still believes he will pitch in 2014 for the Mets even though he deleted his tweet that Harvey Day would return in 2014. I don’t see anything wrong with a player keeping a positive perspective on his own rehab and sharing that...
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Adam Rubin of ESPN New York writes that Ike Davis sported a new accessory in the clubhouse on Monday morning, a walking boot on his right foot. Rubin adds that Davis said the boot will keep the lower leg immobilized and hopefully speed up the healing and that the extent of the injury has caught Davis off guard since he merely has felt “tightness.” The Mets haven’t gotten an MRI...
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Bartolo Colon, who the Mets signed to 2-year $20 million dollar contract this winter, will finally start his first game of the spring when he faces the Miami Marlins today at Tradition Field, at 1:10 pm. Colon, has been slowed in camp by a calf issue, but after watching him walk around the Mets clubhouse on Sunday, he looked ready to go. Vic Black, John Church, Jeurys Familia, Jack...
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It’s nothing more than a glimpse of hope, a promise that the talk of better days ahead might just be more reality than simply talk. They have only thrown an inning here and an inning there over the Mets first ten spring training games, but collectively the young pitching prospects the Mets have compiled in Port St. Lucie are leaving Met fans shaking their heads with wonder. To date twelve Met...
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