The Mets have announced nine players will be added to the roster before tomorrow’s game versus the Brewers.
In addition to Marlon Anderson being activated from the disabled list, INF Ramon Martinez, C Gustavo Molina, RHP Carlos Muniz, LHP Jon Niese, RHP Robert Parnell, RHP Al Reyes, 2B Argenis Reyes and LHP Ricardo Rincon will join the team in Milwaukee.
I have to say that this is exciting to see new faces. Especially Parnell and Reyes and Neise. Hopefully some will contribute. You never know. They can’t be worse than what we have now. Biggest week of the year coming up. This week will be crucial cause i don;t believe the mets will lose a game to the nats and braces in the 12 game stretch
Who is Ramon Martinez?
I think I’m most excited about Gustavo Molina.
how can u tell any of the molinas apart lol
Gustavo is actually not related to Yadier, Bengie, and Jose, believe it or not.
I don’t think he’s related to the others, but to be honest for the longest time i thought they were all the same catcher.
So was I. I was like “Who is this Molina guy? He gets traded constantly. Oh, wait …”
Ramon Martinez is the long-time back-up infielder. I believe he spent most of his career with the Dodgers (though he is obviously not Pedro’s brother, since he is an infielder). And then I think he followed Dusty Baker around a bit, going to the Giants and Cubs. Nothing to get excited about–not in his prime, and definitely not now. And, not for nothing, but I had no idea he was with the Mets’ organization until a couple of days ago. You usually hear about these major league has-beens signing a minor league contract, and I know I didn’t hear about this one!
I’m definitely most excited about Al Reyes and Ricardo Rincon. Relievers with prior major league success are always welcome in this Mets’ bullpen!
“razor” ramon martinez?? pedro’s bro??? or are we now trying to corner the market on martinezes like we did with reyes??? :P
Not Pedro’s brother–the back-up infielder.
I heard they tried to get Jo-Jo Reyes from the Braves, Dennys Reyes from the Twins, and Anthony Reyes of Cleveland, but the Phils blocked every deal. So, like you said, unable to add any more Reyeses, they moved onto Martinezes. :)
awesome.
Jugadores de la buena tarde. recepción a los mets
que?
no que
parkey?
oops – butter – damn im stuck in the 70′s
sorry…thought most fans spoke spanish as well.
translation:
good afternoon players. welcome to the mets
mi espanol esta muy mal ( my english is just as bad) :P
Not exactly. What translator did you get that from? You should’ve said, ” Buenas tardes, jugadores (or peloteros). Bienvenidos a los mets”. Instead you wrote, “Players of the good afternoon. Reception to the mets”.
he is a journeyman scrub utility IF that is useless. I thikn people are underestamating al reyes. this guy has had a great last few years
i agree pelf its kinda like luis “don’t call me benny” ayala – he wasn’t happy in tampa ( d.c for luis) and might just need a change of scenery – plus no bars to get into fights 0- nyc cops don’t use tasers right lol
reyes has more of a good track record. His numbers as soon as the last 4 years have been amazing. Can’t wait for this game tomorrow. Gonna be electric at miller park
what the wi police use tasers :(
actually when i used to work for a band we played milwaulkee – nice place the city is only 2 square blocks wide the cabbie showed us where dahmer lived and the strippers had to wear pasties- ugh except for the beer and bratwurst and the sheboygan chicks i didnt like milwaulkee lol
It’s not Pedro’s brother, This is the Ramon Martinez that played for the Giants and Phillies, most recently, A nackup infielder. Pedro’s brother was a righthanded pitcher,
stemog obviously u don’t have a sarcasm detector talk to toomanyuniforms u r supposed to get one when u join this blog :)
Sorry about that. I registered for one, but it didn’t come yet.
blame cerrone !!! first late posts now no sarcasm detectors damn we are all in trouble lol
anyway back to a serious topic is there anyone here thats a partial plan holder?? if so are they planning on offering us partial plans for next year??
i’m a partial plan holder, and i haven’t heard anything yet… i think we’re getting screwed
Same here–Sunday plan holder since 2000, and not holding my breath. Especially since the Mets are doing better now. Had they not turned it around (regardless of how they finish out the season), the Mets might have been desperate to fill seats at the new park, and given us our partial plans. Now…not too likely, in my opinion.
Obviously, I am much happier that the Mets have been playing better, but I will be *very* pissed if they screw me out of my partial ticket plan with postseason option.
the people on this site that work are so lazy. Can’t they update the standings??
just thinking the same thing.
also, nice nickname. pelf is my favorite
They have also signed Jessie Orosco, Doug Sisk, Neil Allen, Anthony Young and a 13 year old from the Hawaii Little League team
The standings are not “standings”. Is how far back the Phils are in the “loss” column. They’re one game back in the standings but because the mets have the head to head advantage, they’re two back in the loss column.
if they finish the season with the same record, there is a one game playoff. Head to head does not matter in baseball
Unless both teams would still make the playoffs. If that is the case, the team with the better head-to-head record (in this case, the Mets) would be the division winner, and the other team would be the Wild Card winner. If only one of the teams would make the playoffs, then they have the one-game play-in game.
I would think they’ll start doing the coin tosses for the various possible play-in games pretty soon.
Geez…tough crowd!
I’m all for new blogs more frequently than we’ve been getting them, but the standings are barely *ever* updated until the next morning.
the reality is that niese will get maine’s starts, al reyes will get an opportunity to contribute, muniz will get mop up duty, argenis reyes will get some pinch hitting ABs, but I wouldn’t expect very much.
niese will be themost influential call up due to maine’s injury and reyes has an opportunity to contribute in the ‘pen.
I would also expect Parnell to get some of Heilman’s and Duaner’s innings–at least until he shows he is not ready for such a role. Plus, Rincon will get some of Feliciano’s LOOGY work–maybe most of it, if he does well, and Feliciano continues to stink it up.
I’m a little confused re Molina over Casanova, given that Casanova is clearly the better hitter, but I guess it’s splitting hairs when it comes down to third catchers who have been in the minors all year. And hopefully Castro comes back soon to make it a moot point.
Martinez is kinda pointless seeing as we have 3 second basemen (4 if you count Anderson) and Wright and Reyes play every inning; I guess the point is to be able to take Wright, Reyes, or Delgado out in a blowout.
Looking forward to Niese on Tuesday, and to Reyes and Parnell in general.
There is no such thing as a blowout with this bullpen. No lead is safe.
Yeah, but the offense doesn’t score after the third inning anyway, so what does it matter which position players are playing?
Amen Brother!
I appreciate the fact that all these pitchers are coming to aid an overworked bullpen, but as I’ve said before, a bat with some pop would help. Why not give Pascucci or Chris Aguila a chance? The bullpen is not the only ill this club has dealt with – the lack of late inning hitting has also plagued us, and we’re not gonna be able, down the stretch, to count on Ramon Martinez or Marlon Anderson to get big hits.
I see where you care coming from, but we’ve already seen Aguila and he was not impressive. If the Mets play their most regular lineup, we will have Castro, Evans, Murphy / Tatis, Chavez and Easley on the bench … I can live with that lineup … and I think I have more faith in those guys than career AAA guys.
Well, apparently clubs don’t like to call up too many people in September (apparently 9 is a lot) because the clubhouse, trainer’s room, batting practice, etc. gets way too crowded and short-lived for the regulars.
That being said, I agree with you that there is a definite need for more offense. I also agree with Nails that Aguila was not particularly impressive, earlier in the year. I would have picked Pascucci over Ramon Martinez, though.
Is Parnell a hard thrower?? If so how hard??
Big week coming up. Nice to see some new faces. Here’s hoping they are able to contribute.
Also, I really, really hate the Brewers. Always have. Anyone else?
You know, I’ve always rooted for them in the central. I guess I’ve always felt for them … getting moved to the NL, small market, etc.
The teams I really hate in the division are the smug ones … the Cubs and Cards. Everyone else is ok by me.
But of course, the last few years I’ve been rooting against them as it would help the Mets.
I see them struggling next year, b/c I don’t see either Sheets or CC coming back. Parra is a nice young pitcher, but a #1 … no.
Believe he tops out at 97.
This will help the Mets depth a little bit. If Marlon can get hot, they can use him late in games off the bench to pinch hit. The one guy who really has a chance to make an impact more than anyone else will be Niese. If Niese doesn’t throw good, they’ll probably giving Parnell a shot. I don’t know why Claudio Vargas wasn’t on that list. They have a couple of slots they can move around with the 15 day DL to 60 day such as Wise and El Duque if they’re done for the year. Plus, Trot Nixon still might come back too. I’m guessing the only reason why Molina is up over Casanova is because he was never taken off the 40 man.
Vargas is still on the AAA DL. I don’t know if he can be added later or not.
They are going to have to make use of every 60 day DL move they can. I think we could see Nixon and someone else DFA tomorrow… and Burgos is still on the 60 day DL and could be ready to be activated sometime soon…
They hardly have room for this many non roster players, they cant really make room for C. Vargas and Casanova.
Please…if Marlon Anderson gets “hot”, he’ll get above the Mendoza line.
I can’t think of ANY situation where I’d rather have Marlon rather than Murphy or Chavez — except for when you send up a PH knowing that the other team will change pitchers to a guy who throws the other way, forcing you to burn a PH.
As far as Marlon goes, Manuel just has to make sure that he doesn’t give him any starts–*especially* not in the outfield!
2 things:
1. i would have liked to see f-mart… you cant convince me hes less valuable than ramon martinez
2. why not bring in the fastest guy in the minors to be a pinch runner?
1) he’s just not ready, and they need the non roster spots for pitchers. Ramon Martinez is a head scratcher tho…
2) I think Argenis Reyes is that fastest guy…
Also, bringing F-Mart to the bigs starts his service time clock running. The Mets are not going to bring him up to, for the most part, sit on the bench and watch the games, and allow him to get to arbitration and free agency sooner.
So basically, the news is that Niese is pitching on Tuesday in the middle of a pennant race in September, with the team up by 1 game (or tied by the time Tuesday comes) against one of the best offensive teams in the NL?
I would think he would be better served in the bullpen where they absolutely suck and need a bit of stability.
Who should start then? Figgy? Unless the care about his confidence / ego, he’s probably our best shot. He might be great. At worst, he’s probably no worse than Figgy.
That’s the thing–they need somebody, and Niese is just as good as our other options, if not better.
I tend to worry about players playing in the bigs before they are ready, sucking it up, and being ruined by the bad experience. Still, Pelf did all of that, except for being ruined…he managed to survive so, hopefully, if Niese gets rocked on Tuesday, he will survive, and eventually flourish, just like Pelf.
We could take the lead in the WC with a sweep of the Bucks. Not that we’ll need to cause I have faith we’ll take the division, but it’s good either way.
I’m not sure what you mean since I think we are 4.5 games back of the Brewers and don’t play the “bucks” anymore (pittsburgh), but yes, as many wins as we can pick up against MIL the better since it gives us two options.
Bucks=Brewers
the bucks play basketball so a sweep cirtainly would be interesting. the bucs (short for buccaneers) are the pirates
In baseball the bucks are NOT the brewers, but the Pirates
Our lineup against the bucks:
PG – Jose Reyes
SG – David Wright
SF – Carlos Beltran
PF – Carlos Delgado
C – Mike Pelfrey
Absolutely. At this point, it doesn’t look like the second place team in the NL East is getting into the playoffs, but since that could be us, we might as well try to gain ground on the wild card leader, too, on top of getting some breathing room with the Phils.
I think we should win the rest of our games, wild card be damned. Heck, I just don’t get why we bothered losing any games this year. Awful strategy — somebody should be fired…
I never particularly liked the Brewers. The thing that annoys me is that slide when someone hits a home run. For a long time, people always were ripping there pitchers. But it’s something there fans like. Just like the apple thing at Shea. I remember that Geoff Jenkins walk off pissed me off last year. The Brewers can be beaten. I’ll say what I said before the Marlins series: get 2 of 3 and you’re happy. Regardless of annoyances, agony or obstacles. Milwaukee’s a good team. The Mets have to anticipate the Phillies winning 2 of 3 of their series even if it’s not an easy schedule. In this Washington series even though it’s away, they might sweep it. The very worse they can do in this series is 1 out of 3. The main thing is to go out there tomorrow with the ace out there and win. Than from there, a split’s fine.
yeah but the Brewers have Sheets going. But Santana should pitch better than Sheets. I wanted to see Santana v.s Sabathia but luckily we get to miss him.
As nice as it would be to see CC, I’d rather not see him against the Mets–and I’m glad we’ll be missing him!
By the way, as things line up now, we miss Hamels again next weekend. Next Sunday, due to the off day each team has on Thursday, the starters should be the same as tomorrow: Johan for the Mets, and Kendrick for the Phils. Hamels is pitching on Tuesday, though, so, it is possible that they could skip someone’s start, move Hamels up to Sunday, and he’d still be pitching on regular rest. We’ll see what happens.
how terrible is it that the espn sunday night game is discusing the NL MVP for this season, and the convo starts w well it should be someone from the CUbs bc of how well theyve played this yr,(mention soto/aramis)
then morgan goes on to say well you have a darkhorse in delgado, ny fans will say it should be wright but delgado really helped th team turn it around….it took them to the end of the convo to mention reyes, and only mention him bc they say well you know wright has to drive someone in, and alot of the time its reyes
they basically played nice delgado after earlier in the yr saying perhaps he was done…these guys suck, lets get a good booth for the NATIONAL sunday night game
yea they had a good run but it’s time for those two to hang it up…
I have no problem with Jon Miller. Joe Morgan has to go, though. Like someone else previously said on this site, he acts like he is so much better and more knowledgeable than everybody else, and that we should all be honored to listen to him, because he is in the Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame, or not, he’s a moron. It’s amazing that he was able to play baseball so well, knowing so little about the game.
this may sound wierd but i look at the mets bullpen and i fell like they are not as bad as they have been playing… stokes, ayala, and smith have been very effective…and feliciano has been good against the lefties and shoenwiess has the 2nd lowest era in the bullpen behind stokes…heilman u never kno whay youll get……….and sanchez is done.
they need to make stokes the closer right now
make ayala the 8th inning man
leave smith and feliciano specialists
and screw the rest of the guys..use parnell out of the pen and use reyes.
the mets should somhow force sanchez and hielman to fake an injury, go on DL and use reyes and rincon (or parnell or muniz) in their place
Nobody needs to go on the DL anymore–40-man roster is in effect.
That being said, if the Mets make the playoffs, they won’t be using any of these call-ups (except, perhaps, for Al Reyes), so relievers like Heilman and Sanchez still need to be used sometime, so that they won’t be rusty, if the Mets make the playoffs.
I’m not sure why they’d bring up a 2B hitting .197 in AAA with 0 homeruns (Martinez) in 130 ABs and not Pacsucci…even if he sits the bench, he’ s a late-inning power threat…and with Reyes and Anderson coming up, it’s not like they don’t have infielders to give guys a rest…
Huh? Where are you getting your stats? I see a .289 ba with 2hr
in 187 ABs. That said, I also question why he’s being brought up.
Man, I just watched LaRoche’s “hit” in the game vs. Sabathia today…if CC field’s that cleanly he’s out by 2-3 steps….I can’t see how that’s not an error…
*fields
As Keith likes to say, that’s the “home book.”
why are they bringing up another infielder who sucks. Bring Kunz up again and give him a fair shot.
Off topic, but I got a copy of “The NY Mets Essential Games of Shea Stadium” DVD set, and just finished watching the Piazza Sept. 21 2001 game for the first time since I saw it live. The set is worth it just for that game….
The “loss column” standings are 3 days out of date. Just sayin’.
The standing didnt get updated the whole time Cerrone was on vacation… what is three days?
If we want current standings I guess we go to a proper baseball site.
Unrelated but arent the Philly fans suposed to try to take over shea stadium Sept 7th. I remeber earlier in the year they were all making the trip.
ill be there on the sat game – ill bring my philthy repellent (deoderent) they hate that stuff
by the way i just read that davey and mookie aren’t closing out shea .. I understand davey being bitter – but what did the mets do to mookie?? i remember him rooting for preston in the 06 playoffs but i didn’t know he was mad at ownership – damn shame
Why not Eddie Kunz instead of Ramon Martinez?
I guess a drunken post game post is better than no post game post… :)