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Luis Castillo left last night’s game with what the team called a ‘strained left hip flexor,’ although Castillo later told reporters that he hurt his left quadricep.
Castillo will be examined today, with a trip to the disabled list remaining a strong possibility.
Meanwhile, Ramon Castro was hit by a pitch on his left elbow in the ninth inning and underwent X-rays after the game.
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I’ll be back
I was finally starting to earn respect for you slappy, and now this…
Come back soon, Slaps!!!!!!
Hate all these damn injuries, nothing new though.
I do believe it is time to bring up Murphy from Binghamton.
Why? he doesn’t play 2B
Please dont be back. stay on the DL for 4 yrs…
do all of us a favor and quit.
Cant imagine having this guy for 4 yrs…. the more i think about it……it frustrates me more…..
Hmm, it will be interesting to see who they call up to play. I can’t really see Easley as the everyday 2B, and if he is, they have no other back up infielders.
Maybe one of the “kids” that did well in ST can come up for a trial? Unless it is A. hernandez (yuck).
why dont you think hernandez is a good callup? at least he can pick up a ground ball.
hernandez is terrible.
he’s not terrible, he’s great with the glove, and can bat 8th with Church batting 2nd. For a part time solution, defense is the probably the most important thing. Lest we not forget that in ‘06 when we got off to that great start, Ahern was our starting 2nd basemen.
Rather than Church hit 2nd why not:
Reyes
Beltran
Wright
Church
Then you do
(Alou if he ever comes back)
1B
Schneider
AHearn
He’s a great fielder with speed that needs to learn how to bunt for a base hit more often–if not, he’ll not make it at this level.
If he’s a great fielder how do you explain the 9 errors so far? He’s on pace to make 30 errors!
my guess is you’ve made the argument at some point in your life that errors and fielding percentage are not adequate measures of a players fielding ability. Use the stats as you wish though.
All you guys are clue-less about A-hernndez,
He might be a great fielder but STINKS at bat.
THIS IS NOT WHAT THIS TEAM NEEDS, WHERE IT HAS BECOME EMINENT THAT THIS TEAM LACKS OFFENSE.
Therefore we need a good 2nd baseman that can HIT and field..
Hernandez is not what this team needs.
btw in AAA he is batting .184
yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!
so….who do you suggest? or are you just going to rip down our opinions and offer nothing else?
Classic Mets. He starts hitting, then sproioioioing!!!
Ah, Fatalism!
We might as well put the whole team on the DL and try our best with some super subs! We might get better results….
Well, we are about 20% there already. Good progress.
maybe we can trade Delgado for Kent
is it time for us maybe to start holding the strength and conditioning staff accountable? im not talking about injuries where players get hit by a pitch, etc, but the team knows that it has a significant amount of veteran players who need a strong strength and conditioning program and i’m not sure they’re getting one.
Do you think theese injuries are only happening to the Mets? Not the case.
I can hear the “Fire Rick Slate” chants beginning.
yes, with a good strength and conditioning program, no injuries should ever happen, in fact, no one should ever get injured, ever, ever ever, ever ever ever.
But that’s why they invented the word “whups!”
Maybe we keep getting injuries because we have a signigicant amount of players in their 30s, or 40s who were already a little bit injury prone. I mean it’s not like Wright and Reyes keep getting injured. It’s Pedro and El Duque and Alou and now Castillo. none of those guys were iron man to begin with and players generally don’t get less injury prone as they age.
It is absolutely time to look at the S&C program and the training staff.
Sure every team has injuries. But the Mets have had a plethora of avoidable strains and pulls over the past 2 years.
Alou hurt himself just standing in the outfield. I have never seen video or an article on what the Mets S&C program is like but I would imagine it is rigid and traditional weight lifting and not the dynamic motion these old bums should be doing to stay limber. These geriatrics should be a on a sports yoga program too to maintain flexibility. Really everyone should with having to play baseball 6 days a week for 6 months.
dude, the older you get, the more likely you are to get injured, thats just facts. We happen to have a few older guys who get injured, it has nothing to do with our strength and conditioning being worse then other teams.
Are you actually a member of the Mets training staff?
I work with a 44-year-old world class athlete who never pulls hammys or quads. He is a fighter and not a baseball player. But he works out 2 times a day including sparring and wrestling. I would venture to say that our S&C guy is better than the Mets.
Alou has a great body and probably does reps with 250lbs but he isn’t in shape. Castillo clearly isn’t in shape. It’s also a possilbility that these guys aren’t drinking enough fluids. I don’t know because I’m not back there every day, but something is being done improperly from the piling up of avoidable injuries.
Yah, its clear that it’s not just old age. Even older athletes (in their 30’s, 40’s) should be in better physical shape than to be injured this frequently and I believe someone should at least look into it
If Castillo gets placed on the DL, does that Pedro just takes his spot?
Or would Omar bring up a utility infielder along the likes of…*gulp*…Anderson Hernandez?
Bring up Valentin to play 2nd. Between the two of them, hopefully one will be healthy enough to play at any given point.
I’d like to see a 2B platoon of Castillo and Valentin.
They can wheel them on & off the field.
re: Pedro. mets.com now lists C. Vargas as the Mets starter on Tuesday.
The one thing they cant do is let lame players (Church, Castillo) stay on the roster while carrying three catchers.
If they dont want to put either on the DL, I would think we could see Casanova DFA and Valentin or Argenis Reyes called up. This gives them the flexability to play with only 11 position players.
We could also see Muniz used in long relief today if Pelfrey tanks. Muniz and Pelfrey could then be sent down and two position players could be called up until they need a spot for Pedro. Endless possabilities really, they have 4 or 5 players who could lose their roster spot today or tomorrow.
Why? I’m going to see the Mets in San Diego June 7th & 8th. I was excited to see Pedro start the 3rd and then again in San Diego on the 8th. Maybe he’ll skip the start on the 3rd and take the place of Vargas on the 8th? I don’t know but I’ll be pretty bummed to have to see Vargas instead of Pedro
no idea, it could be wrong. Pedro could take Pelfrey’s spot which is two days after Vargas. Or he could take Maine’s spot and move everyone back a day.
Wow, I really thought that whopping 3-game win streak sewed up the division for us. It’s amazing how self-congratulatory this team is…when last night was alot of the same.
I said last week, all Heilman pitching well a few games accomplishes is ensuring he’ll blow another big game down the line. Took less than a week. Bravo. Now with s sure loss from Pelfrey, we’re again lucky to get a split.
Heilman is not an 8th inning pitcher. Scho, Smith. Feliciano, and Sanchez have all pitched circles around him this year, but stuborn Willie puts him right back into that role on the strength of TWO outings? If Heilman could do anything right we’d be right in this thing instead of 4.5 back – of the Phillies now, not the Flukes.
As for Castillo – we need punch if he’s out. Just because the whole team is old does not mean we can discount Valentin as a suitable replacement.
Nevermind how self-congratulatory the team is…..the stupid fans who were all running around here like this team was finally going to win something go the cold water to the face they never thought was coming.
People: This team has neither the toughness of the Phillies, nor the talent of the Phillies, nor the youth of the Phillies.
I really do hate our current team. God, I can’t wait until the last of these chokers is gone so I can have a player to root for, instead of just a uniform
The Phillies are not a young team. Utley and Howard are already 29ish, rollins is 30+, although Hamels and Myers are younger (around Perez/Maine age, although Hamels could be slightly younger).
Pen is old too
In any case, they aren’t quite the Rays or Diamondbacks.
I’m not a Phils fan so don’t get me wrong… Baseball Players for the most part start declining around the age of 35…. So let’s not make it out as if ROllins,Utley,HOward are Julio Franco…. They can still bang out hits and Play ball for the next 5 years so don’t hate on Good Baseball Players… Utley is a tremendous Player and Howard is a lethal Power bat.. Rollins is a perrenial all star so let’s not hate on em… Just go Out and Beat em and don’t worry about how old they are…
Hamels is 24. But yeah, in 3 years Wright and Reyes will still be younger than what Utley and Howard are now.
Also t we don’t know how much hgh/steroids had/has to do with players not breaking down until around 35. Their seems to be a youth movement going on around baseball.
ESPN”s roster analysis has the average age of the Phillies roster at 30.3 and the Mets at 30.3
4 years of this!!! YEAH!!!
Too bad we don’t have a useful bench 2b like a Gotay…..oh wait a minute….
negative nancy-
have you seen gotay with the braves? guy is terrible
wait, i thought because he’s not on our team anymore he must be the 2nd coming?
Gotay is ok, but he’s no Jeff Keppinger.
In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning.
Get The Stache ready.
We have no other infielders in the minor leagues ready. Forget about A. Hernandez. We have pitchers on the team who can hit better than him.
Let’s GO STACHE!! Seriously, i think it’s time to call him up
Let’s Hurry Back Valentin… A Solid Major League Player and a Leader in the Club HOUSE>>..
this will only make the champagne taste that much sweeter.
that must be the most classic line of all
Nice job on the perfunctory cheap shot at Willie post.
Honestly that is one of my favorite lines ever. I said that to a girl in the club 2 weeks ago and she looked at me like I was retarded. We’d just gotten a bottle of champagne at our table and somebody bumped into her and spilled her drink. If she were a Mets fan that would have been magic.
I’m going to find an opportunity to say that somebody tonight.
with RHP on the scheduled the next two days Delgado will be holding down 1B (for worse or better) which frees up Easley to play 2B. I wonder if Tatis has played any 2B, …ok he played 2 innings in 2006. I guess they could have him take grounders over there, but he cant be good at double plays.
despite reports that Valentin was going to AAA, he was playing DH for St. Lucie again last night after sitting out four days. Could he really be ready after just 14 AB’s in the FSL?
Argenis Reyes hasnt been hitting that much for AAA, and at AA Manny Garcia is having a bad year. Reyes might be the best choice if they feel they must have another 2B on the roster.
Anderson Hernandez isnt an option. If it isnt his .239 OPB at AAA then its probably the 9 errors in 54 games. Do people even look to see how many errors he has before saying he can pick it? It isnt 2006 anymore people…
Anderson Machado has 7 errors as a platoon 3B, yikes!
Thank you, Nate.
As usual, great information from you.
ok for the un-informed poster who was spewing about how young the phils are; here are their starting lineups ages:
LF Burrel 32
CF Victorino 28
RF Jenkins 34
3B Feliz 33
SS Rollins 30
2B Utley 30
1B Howard 29
C Ruiz 29
That lineup is not young at all, in fact some of their “young talent”; i.e. Ruiz, Victorino, are already pushing 30, and have yet to establish themselves over a full season.
LF Burrell 31
CF Victorino 27
RF Jenkins 33
3B Feliz 33
SS Rollins 29
2B Utley 29
1B Howard 28
C Ruiz 29
So, you got 2 out of 8…
sorry i didnt sit and check the month each player was born, just did it based on the year, so a guy born in ‘78 is 30 regardless of what month he was born in
Time for the Stache.
Let’s start a petition ;)
Although Schneider is a fine defensive Catcher he’s offense or lack their of worries me… I wouldn’t mind seeing Razor Ramon starting over Schenider or atleast starting against left handed Bat… I hope Razor doesn’t go on the DL… A Yo…
When are the Mets going to send down Nick Evans??? The Kid is really overmatched and needs to go back to A ball… If Nick Evans is the Best Prospect to be called up beside F Mart OH MY GOD the Mets are in trouble… Nick Evans should be playing for the Newark Bears…. ON the Brighter Side Can’t wait to have Valentin Back with the Mets… Valentin gives the METS leadership in the clubhouse and on the Field… LETS go Stache hurry Back………..
They’ll send him down when we have someone else to play that position. Right now we don’t. They didn’t just call him up for fun.
You guys think they are gonna delay the game and try to play it later tonight or a double header tomorrow?
later today, its Fox’s game they arent going to want to give it away. They’ll make the fans wait and wait and wait, and start the game at 8 pm if they can.
I have no idea what the common off days would be, but I’m sure someone is looking that up as the Mets do not want to play a double header tomorrow with seven more games to go after that before an off day.
any word on today’s game?–it’s raining in manhattan. I guess they usually don’t call them until game time.
Rollins a perennial all-star? Has he even started an all star game? Most overrated MVP in the history of baseball is mr. rollins…..Basically the MVP is a home run award, thus Phillies players winning it every year despite not doing anything of note as a team….
A Yo the Phils won the Pennant Last Year… Rollins had 212 hits and 30 home runs as a Leadoff Hitter and his team won the Pennant… Thus Rollins is the MVP although I believe Holliday should’ve won for the Rocks… This year it will be either Chipper, Berkman, or Utley… Regardless of who wins the award who gives a crap just go out and win a Championship that’s what’s up……..
won the pennant? ive always thought winning the pennant meant you represented your league in the world series? could have sworn those world beating rocks swept the phils. hmm
wow…its getting ugly out there
Yeah the forecast is strong storms till about 6… I’ve got tickets and I don’t know if I should go or wait till they make an announcement
For what its worth, my folks in Philly reported it was pouring at 12pm and is no longer raining. So perhaps it is moving through quickly.
On the other hand, Rubin reported yesterday that the Mets are already planning on a Sunday day/nighter should it rain out today.
Surprised by the day/night plan, I guess there are no common off days when the Dodgers are on the east coast.
by moving Pelfrey into the double header it makes him the likely choice to be dropped from the rotation to make room for Pedro. Having 9 games in 8 days ties thier hands a little bit as far as moving pitchers around and slotting Pedro in where they want.
We should get Valentine to soak up all the rain with his mustache :)
…you mean Bobby’s fake nose and mustache?
i dunno, it looks horrible out there and the weather report is rain of some sort till 9pm
At least if it rains they can’t lose. :-)
Once again we are depending on another over the hill player in Valentin to come back and help us. Seriously how long till he gets hurt again. This is just an endless cycle. You can not blame this on the strength coach. Omar is to blame for this Senior Citizen home he has put together.
They are going to wait the weather out as long as the can tonight. They def dont want to play a day night doubble header tomorrow then travel to the west coast. They will be shot if they do that.
platooning Castillo and Valentin will help ensure that they always have a healthy 2B and will lowerer the chances that either gets hurt.
They should platoon at C, 1B, and 2B the rest of the year, imo. And they should find someone for LF…. Ibanez? anyone? A Tatis/Chavez LF isnt terrible, but it almost is.
what do u think of signing kenny lofton for left field