Daily Archives: May 11, 2006
The Los Angeles Times reports that Mets GM Omar Minaya has ‘little interest’ in acquiring LHP Odalis Perez from the Dodgers ‘because of the $21 million’ the pitcher is owed between this season and next…
…hmm…so, i wonder if this indicates that the mets would be interested if the dodgers picked up part of the tab…
Over at the Mets Minor League Report, Toby recaps the night in Mets minor league action…
Among other comments, Toby writes of strong performances by B-Mets OF Bobby Malek, who was 2–for-4 with a double and a solo HR; and Leivi Ventura, who was 2–for-3 with a double and run scored for Hagerstown…
…toby provides a mets minor league report after each night’s action…thanks, toby…
Malek, 24, is batting .272 in 114 at-bats at Double-A Binghamton, sporting four HR and 18 RBI along with 24 strike outs and eight walks…
In 127 at-bats for the Single-A Suns, Ventura, 22, is batting just .252 with 44 strike outs to seven walks, four HR and 17 RBI…
By the way, courtesy of MiLB.com, watch the Mets Triple-A affiliate, the Norfolk Tides, try to improve on their league-worst 10-23 record as they visit Toledo at 10:30 EDT this morning on MLB.tv…
At MetsGeek.com, Mike talks with Matt Meyers of Baseball America about the state of the Mets farm system…
Among other topics, the two discuss OF Lastings Milledge, LHP Jon Neise, 1B Junior Contreras and RHP Alay Soler, of whom Meyers says, “I am not sure of how much of an impact he will make, but I do see him getting a shot out of the bullpen.”…
…by the way, in case you missed it, yesterday evening i gave my two cents on soler and pelfrey, and when we can maybe expect to see them later in the year…
In the Press & Sun Bulletin, Brian Moritz reports that B-Mets LHP Henry Owens continues to experience pain in his right forearm, most likely attributed to a small tear in his ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, which was diagnosed by doctors in New York City on Tuesday…
According to Moritz, Owens will continue to play catch, but there appears to be no timetable for his return…
At Toby Hyde’s Mets Minor League Report, cites a medical professional as saying this type of injury, given Bell’s reaction, should keep him at least a few weeks away from appearing in a game, assuming there are no setbacks along the way…
In the Star-ledger, Don Burke quotes Mike Port, Major League Baseball’s vice president of umpiring, as saying his office has looked into the alleged comments of Angel Hernandez…
Port, as quoted by Burke…
“Anything we found out was inconclusive. When you get into the issue of integrity, you’d better be 100 percent sure you know what happened.”…
…honestly, what did you expect to happen…oh well…
According to Adam Rubin’s notebook in the Daily News, Carlos Beltran, Carlos 
Mets LHP Tom Glavine has 45 strike outs this season in 53 innings pitched, while going 5–2 
Glavine has made 23 straight starts of six innings or more dating back to last season, and has made no less than 32 starts per season over the last decade…
Glavine, as quoted by the Newsday…
“I try not to think about that stuff. Maybe I’m getting better with age, I don’t know. It’s been a year-and-a-half long process to get where I am right now.”…
Since last season’s All-Star break, spanning 23 starts, Glavine is 12–8 with 2.21 ERA and two complete games sporting nearly six strike outs per nine innings pitched…
The Star-Ledger and the New York Post both right that 2B Anderson Hernandez will continue his rehab stint tonight in Norfolk…
…the buzz yesterday was that hernandez will likely remain at triple-a, given how well Kaz Matsui has played in his absence…
The criticism of Jose Valentin continues, this time by Joe at Mets Today, who astutely writes, “In the eighth, he was on deck when Kaz Matsui attempted to score on a sac fly, and would have been tagged out if the catcher had not dropped the ball. Where the heck was Valentin? His role was to be directly behind home plate, shouting direction to Kaz as to whether he should slide or come in standing. Instead, Valentin was busy pine-tarring his bat or trimming his mustache or who knows what.”…
…or swinging a plunger in the dugout, as the camera showed during the game…what was that about anyway…
Dan, at Lonestar Mets, gives a hat tip to the fan in the stands who SNY showed during the game wearing a 1992 Mets road jersey. Dan writes, “It takes a lot of therapy to be able to unblock those awful memories of those awful, awful years.”…
…was it a Willie Randolph jersey…if so, that’d be pretty damn clever, actually…
Mets manager Willie Randolph told reporters that he plans to start Jose Lima on Friday in Milwaukee, while using Jeremi Gonzalez on Saturday…
Initially, the team planned to do the opposite…
…the buzz from the minor leagues is that RHP Heath Bell will be sent back to norfolk when gonzalez is promoted on saturday…
According to John Delcos in the Journal News, Mets GM Omar Minaya confirmed for reporters that Brian Bannister will make at least one start in Triple-A before being activated from the disabled list…
…by my calculations, that would mean he’ll be unavailable for the series against the yankees…yikes…
