Mike Nichols
News: Wags Sent Back To NYC
By Mike Nichols - Aug 3, 2008 1:23 pm

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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  1. patrick says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Didn’t they mean stiff neck?

  2. Gina says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    God we’re like falling apart.

    • shinjosplints17 says:
      August 4, 2008 at 4:48 pm

      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!

  3. AlwaysAmazing5 says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    How exactly does one’s forearm become stiff by the way?

  4. bkfitz says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Hopefully there won’t be a save situation.

  5. therealsince86 says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Is it just me or is Wagner “injured” everytime he blows a save?
    Maybe he is taking his September stint in August this season.

    • baseball4jr says:
      August 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm

      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.

    • DerangedHermit says:
      August 3, 2008 at 3:55 pm

      He’s not injured THAT often :P

  6. Gary Busey says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    Dropping like flies!

  7. LIMetfan74 says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    I think they have to really give Freddy Garcia a look.

    • therealsince86 says:
      August 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm

      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.

  8. Church says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    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.

    • baseball4jr says:
      August 3, 2008 at 1:49 pm

      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.

      • Andrew says:
        August 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm

        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.

        • Xavier22 says:
          August 3, 2008 at 5:07 pm

          Yeah, the Mets winning 10 in a row had nothing to do wtih it.

          Give them some credit at least.

        • Andrew says:
          August 3, 2008 at 5:40 pm

          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.

  9. baseball4jr says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    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).

  10. MetfaninFL says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    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.

  11. MetsFan4Decades says:
    August 3, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    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….

  12. 911nafstem says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    just keep the good news coming…..

  13. Flushing_is_Burning says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    maybe i don’t know too much about other teams, but is this Mets team cursed with the worst injury woes ever?

    • Gina says:
      August 3, 2008 at 2:12 pm

      I don’t think it’s a curse so much as we have a lot of older and/or injury prone players.

  14. 911nafstem says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    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!

    • Gina says:
      August 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm

      We need to add two starters. I’d imagine that’s going to take up most of the money coming off the books.

      • 911nafstem says:
        August 3, 2008 at 2:17 pm

        Why? The starting pitching is probably the greatest strength of the team

        • Gina says:
          August 3, 2008 at 2:25 pm

          Because we’ll have 2 empty rotation spots?

        • Gina says:
          August 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm

          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.

        • 911nafstem says:
          August 3, 2008 at 2:31 pm

          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.

        • Gina says:
          August 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm

          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.

        • 911nafstem says:
          August 3, 2008 at 2:39 pm

          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

        • Gina says:
          August 3, 2008 at 2:49 pm

          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.

  15. metsforlife says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    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!!

    • Gina says:
      August 3, 2008 at 2:27 pm

      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.

    • dave27 says:
      August 3, 2008 at 8:08 pm

      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!

  16. The Slider says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Boy, the news just keeps getting better and better for the Amazins.

  17. RomanWarHelmet says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    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)

  18. dave56dj says:
    August 3, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    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.

  19. mrose says:
    August 3, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    how was he sent back to NY when he is in the dugout?

  20. casey s. says:
    August 3, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    how painful is it that xavier nady is playing this well for the yanks? I hate it.

  21. radiopam says:
    August 3, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    for some reason they are waiting til Tuesday for Wagner’s MRI??? WTF?

  22. krispy644 says:
    August 3, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    Wags….your old=your decline

    If I was Omar, I would sign K-Rod and try to do anything possible to trade Wagner. ANYTHING!!!

  23. dave27 says:
    August 3, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    When do they announce that Wagner was also unavailable for Saturday’s game?

  24. ralphcarlsonjr says:
    August 3, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Is Beltran going to wake up sometime this year?

  25. stearnsfan12 says:
    August 3, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    OK, I am going to get radical here and see where it takes me. I do not think the Mets can win the division with this team. Cinderella’s slipper seems to be falling, and I don’t know that she will get it back on in time to win the East. Even if the Mets were to win the division, I don’t see them capable of winning it all, which is anyone’s objective at the beginning of the season. I am not unhappy that we are starting to explore what the youth can do at the ML level. Kunz should be the closer until Wags comes back from his confidence, sorry forearm, woes. I want to see what Murphy, Kunz, Niese can do and I think its absurd if the Mets don’t call up Niese for a spot start along the way. Our 3 best players are young in baseball age but not experience. Wright, Reyes, Santana are the future. Lets see what kind of young talent we can put around them and see what the future holds. I am not saying you cannot have veterans in the lineup as no team can win without some sort of veteran presence.

    I am also starting to think its time to decide what Carlos Beltran is worth. He has been playing average baseball all year and is not living up to the expectations his contract had placed upon him. When I heard Beltran in the Manny deal, on first glance, I would have said no way. The more I think about Beltran in a deal for someone else(maybe this offseason), I start to wonder if it can be done. I don’t know why but he has been regressing since his first fine season. This year’s offensive woes can be placed lost of places, but he has never caught fire, and I think it hurts now more than ever.

    Of course the season is not over, and I admit freely that I am just feeling down after a sweep at the hands of the Astros. Lets not pack up the season yet, but lets hope things turn around sooner than later, and the youngsters can step up!!!\

    LETS GO METS!!!!!

    • KL15 says:
      August 3, 2008 at 11:20 pm

      Of all the problems that surround this team, Carlos Beltran isn’t one of them. I know alot of haters are around and complain about him, but I cannot think of anyone else I’d rather have in centerfield. Besides I doubt you could get a fair trade for him in the offseason and he has a no trade clause to boot. I agree with you on the youth movement, unfortunately this may take some time.

  26. JerryKoosman says:
    August 3, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    “Billy Wagner will be unavailable for today’s game”

    To quote Wagner…”what an f’ing shock”

  27. HoJoWright says:
    August 4, 2008 at 9:59 am

    wags is old and scared. I was at the game in Houston, when Billy blew Johan’s win. what a mess. the whole crowd was very loud and on Billy as soon as he ran out and only got louder as he gave up the hits.

    they were also all over Beltran everytime he touched the ball or came to the plate.

    billy always has an excuse, he may be hurt but man up and sit these awful players down.

    Time to pay San DIego back for earlier this year! LETS GO METS

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