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The Mets have announced LHP Billy Wagner will be unavailble for today’s game as he has been sent back to New York to be examined for a stiff forearm.
Jerry Manuel said the recently called up Eddie Kunz may be the team’s closer for today’s game.
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Didn’t they mean stiff neck?
What is Wagner’s ratio of poorly pitched game to MRI the next day finding nothing?
His last MRI was after a 1,2,3 ninth in Cincy with 2 ks.
I believe he struck out the side, actually.
God we’re like falling apart.
These last two months i hope they are it for us and Billy. I have had my fill. I say we trade him or hopefully he retires in the off-season, Make a big push for K-ROD. Trade Carlos Beltran for a Aaron Rowand (Good fielder, Nice Bat, clubhouse guy) and a good arm out of the pen. Maybe we don’t have the power but we are safer at the end of games and we get the “hard-nosed gamer” that we need. Wags is the worst it like a Phillie killing us from the inside!
How exactly does one’s forearm become stiff by the way?
it doesn’t. my prediction: yet another dishonest medical report from the mets.
A stiff forearm is a medical impossibility?
Who the hell are you? Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman?
I am not a doctor. Although, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
tennis elbow
What do you mean “it doesn’t”? Stiff forearm is common complaint that often ends up being elbow trouble. So this is not good.
Hopefully there won’t be a save situation.
the way the game is going now, we’ll be lucky if there is a save situation
Is it just me or is Wagner “injured” everytime he blows a save?
Maybe he is taking his September stint in August this season.
This is Wagner’s excuse for all of his bad performances. Nope I was wrong, this is the whole bullpen’s excuse a.k.a. Scott Schoenweis last year. Honsetly if a player gets hurt in a game, I would rather see him come out immediately than ruin a Mets win.
Started with Looper doing the same thing.
He’s not injured THAT often :P
Dropping like flies!
I think they have to really give Freddy Garcia a look.
I think I replied to this on the other thread but I am sure we are the leaders there. He was seen over and over at our ST camp.
injuries
NY Mets
Player Injury
M. Alou Hamstring
M. Anderson Hamstring
T. Armas Abdominal
A. Burgos Elbow
L. Castillo Quadriceps
R. Church Post-concussion syndrome
O. Hernandez Foot
J. Maine Shoulder
T. Nixon Groin
A. Pagan Shoulder
J. Vargas Hip
M. Wise Shoulder
Houston
Player Injury
M. Bourn Ankle
F. Paulino Arm
Thats almost funny.
On a positive note, look how good the Mets have played without all of those guys. They are only 2 games out of first place right now.
You mean look how lucky the Mets are that the Phillies and Marlins went stone-cold for a while to keep them in the race.
Yeah, the Mets winning 10 in a row had nothing to do wtih it.
Give them some credit at least.
Yeah, the Mets won 10 in a row, but that only took them from a bad record to a marginally acceptable record. If the Phillies and Marlins had even played .500 ball while the Mets were hot, they’d be well ahead.
Well I guess we get to see our future. I think the Mets plans are to use Kunz as the closer once Wagner’s contract ends. On the bright side, I guess the rookies wont be so nervous considering they will have a couple of fellow b-mets on the big league club roster at the end of the week (Evans, Murphy, Kunz and Niese).
Thank God we are playing in Houston, the closest NL city to New Orleans. I shutter to think what would happen if we were in San Francisco or LA today. We would be about 4 people short if we weren’t so close to NO.
but kunz came from the b-mets
yea but either way looks like were gonna get swept by 52-57 houston
Maine on the DL wasn’t completely unexpected. Hopefully, he’ll just miss those 2 starts.
Now Wagner possibly injured? The injuries on this team are just unbelievable this year. You just can’t make this stuff up.
I believe the only two positional players not injured this year, or not recovering from injuries and/or surgery end of last year - has been Reyes and Wright. Add Pedro, Maine, Wagner and a couple of other relievers (Weis) to that list.
And a big knock on wood here we don’t add Reyes & Wright o this ever growing list….
just keep the good news coming…..
maybe i don’t know too much about other teams, but is this Mets team cursed with the worst injury woes ever?
I don’t think it’s a curse so much as we have a lot of older and/or injury prone players.
Do what you do best this off-season, Omar, spend money, Tex and KRod or bust. You’ll have Pedro, Delgado, and probably Ollie’s salaries off the books, a new stadium, you can do it!
We need to add two starters. I’d imagine that’s going to take up most of the money coming off the books.
Why? The starting pitching is probably the greatest strength of the team
Because we’ll have 2 empty rotation spots?
Also, right now Perez is probably our second best starter and he’ll be gone, and if we bring him back we’re looking at shelling out at least 15 million per.
Hate to tell ya, but knowing the Mets, they’ll fill one of those slots with Niese and the other one with a Livan Hernandez-type retread.
If they’re not going to spend on starters why would they spend on Tex, who’s contract demands are ridiculous, or K-rod, who’s going to want a similar contract to Wagner’s.
because the Mets don’t have someone in their farm who they can sell as a replacement for Delgado and I’ve read that Omar is in love with KRod
I have more faith in some sort of Evans/Murphy platoon at first than I do in Niese in the rotation next year. And what does it matter if Omar’s in love with him, why would the Wilpons sign off on paying two pitchers closer money?
Not to mention if we have Livan Hernandez and Niese filling out to rotation spots next year it really won’t matter who our set-up man is or our first basemen, we won’t be going very far.
Garcia? Livan? Omar get some bodies in here! Now! I don’t know what RP are available yet?? Also, I think Lopez and Monroe should be looked at.
This is why I was so upset that we did not make any trades at the deadline. I really hope these prospects can get the job done. If not Omar is going to look real bad here. With so many ? marks now, Church, Maine, Wagner, Pedro, Castillo, Castro leaving yesterday.
Oh boy I feel a little sick!!
I don’t see how it would make sense to go all in on one player, and with the asking prices that’s pretty much all we could have done, when our team has so many holes.
I’d pick up Livan as a fill-in…could be decent at big Shea.
Let’s take advantage of being behind the Marilins and Phillies and unable to be blocked by them!
Boy, the news just keeps getting better and better for the Amazins.
Don’t be so doom and gloom, besides Billy going back to NY, they needed to get another arm in the pen. Putting Maine on the DL retroactive gets them the extra arm now in Kunz and they needed a sixth starter for Monday’s makeup anyway. Now you slot in Niese over the weekend and move back the rest of the guys and Maine pitches Tuesday. This is not a disaster. Hopefully Billy is ok (I can’t believe I said that)
Hopefully Billy will never pitch again. Pain for life is too good for poison Wagner.
are we cursed in jury wise….nope not even close: check out the yanks:
matsui - gone
posoda - gone
hughes gone
arod - was out 4 weeks
kennedy - hurt
wang - gone
bruney - just getting back
they lost their ace their left fielder their catcher their 4 and 5 spot guys (although both were struggling) arod for a period and their 7th inning guy.
certainly our injuries are not good but you can’t sy omar should have foresaw maine and wags going down, if they in fact to go down.
lets get a win today.
“hughes gone, kennedy - hurt”
Also add “sucked” to both of them.
how was he sent back to NY when he is in the dugout?