Read: The Mets and Guarentees
As noted over the weekend, Carlos Beltran had the following to say to reporters when asked about his team’s chances, now that they have acquired Johan Santana…
“With him, I have no doubt we’re going to win our division. I have no doubt about that…So, this year, tell Jimmy Rollins we are the team to beat.”
According to the New York Post, Endy 
Chavez said yesterday that Santana more or less ‘guarantees’ that the Mets will make the playoffs.
In Newsday, David Lennon quotes Carlos Delgado as saying that, with Santana, the Mets have the best team, but, “You can talk all you want, you can say all you want, but at the end of the day, all that matters is what happens between the two white lines.”
However, Billy Wagner had the following to say, about Beltran’s comments, as quoted in a great article about the subject by Ben Shpigel in the New York Times:
“You can’t say it and then, you know, not start off well or things don’t go well and say, ‘That’s not what I meant.’ Now, you have to lead, you have to stand there and take the punishment and the bad games, and you have to be there to answer the questions and deal with that. You can’s t say, ‘I was just kidding.’ You can’t.”
