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J.J. Putz will pitch for Team USA in this year’s World Baseball Classic, according to a ‘potential’ roster released Friday, reports MLB.com.
David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Pedro Feliciano, Jose Reyes, Johan Santana and Francisco Rodriguez will also play in the WBC, according to previous reports.
…from what i can gather, players will leave camp for the WBC around March 1, meaning they will play in at least one or two spring training games before returning later in the month…
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I still don’t like this.
stupid, whar
t’s more important here,?
lame
On the year I decided to go down there for a visit. just my luck, I guess!
Still don’t like the Mets’ pitchers involvement in WBC. makes me nervous.
We need to see how putz is pitching, the earliest he pitches the better is for us to see if he’s healthy or not
but he can do all those things under the watchful eyes of the mets’ trainers, not in competition format.
Agree with the above post. So, about 40%
of our opening day roster including almost
all of the most important players who b/t/w
are being paid tens of millions of $ will be
involved in exhibitions in which everyone will
be going all out are all exposing themselves
to injury which would wreck our season.
OKayyyy, And this makes sense how????
Guys, he’ll pitch in like 3 to 4 games max.. relax.. santana is a different story.. but putz im fine with him being there..
Gee you are sso deep. He might get hurt, how about Mets getting hurt in taxis. Does it worry you when they take a cab. Your argument is pathetic and , shallow . And is it ok for guys on other team to play? I’m ure it is so you have zerop credibility as well.
I know they have the right to play and feel pride for their contries, but if someone gets hurt: I am going POSTAL
DDDDDOOOONNNNN””’TTTTTTTTT DDDDDDDOOOOOO IIIIITTTTT
The whole getting injured thing is totally overblown. Coaches are very conservative about innings.
Johan Santana pitched a whopping 8.1 innings. Then he won the Cy Young that year.
The most anybody pitched was Koji Uehara with an arm-shattering 17 IP!! Diabolical!!
Riiiight., Sounds nice. Until of course Reyes
Breaks an ankle which wrecks OUR season.
And for what?? To help sell Baseball around the world?? What that’s not been done already? What with players in MLB from every
corner of the world already? What? good can
possibly come from this??
The enjoyment of the games.
You’re kidding, Right?
fongu,
relaz, reyes and them will be fine, stop thinking negatively man..
I try alex BUT after 35years with this team,
it ain’t easy.
lol, i hear ya fongu!!
I don’t have a problem with guys playing, this isn’t football where injury is a legit concern. it’s not like if they weren’t playing in the WBC they would be resting, they would be playing in spring training games where fluke injuries can occur too. so everybody relax and Omar – please sign manny. thank you.
It’s fun. Which is what sports is supposed to be.
Don’t get me wrong, I take competition seriously and I’m uber competitive with everything that I do. But there has got to be room to have fun and still do your job (which in the case of MLB, playing for the Mets is their job, and playing for the WBC is fun).
Also, it’s fun for the fans. I love it.
You mean there was never an injury in Spring Training!!!!!
Wow!!! This is news……
I feel like this could be a good thing for the guys in our lineup. They’ll get some meaningful at bats before the season starts. I’d definitely rather see our pitchers sit this one out though.
I guess I’ll be the lone voice in saying that i”m excited to see the WBC and I’m proud to have so many Mets represent in the WBC. Particularly, I am proud to see DWright and JJ represent the US.
Sure, there are injury concerns. But there are injury concerns every time these people play with their kids, or go out for a pickup game of basketball or flag football or do whatever. They’re not supermodels to be coddled. They’re athletes. Let them play. Let them have fun. And seriously, let them have a life.
To other issues, Does appear that the
Red Sox have moved on from Varitek
As according to Gammons they’re hunting
around for a young Catcher. Thoughts??
Go to a red sox blog if u want opinions..
lol.. jk fongu.. he should be there, but not at the price he’s asking.. he’s like 50 years old..
Just curious. You really cant trust Catchers
after about 33/34yrs old But I really am no
big fan of either of our guys. And to Variteks
credit, he does seem to bring alot of fight
to a team,obviously something we’ve lacked
the last couple yrs..But he is goin’on 37, so.
I agree that he brings a lot of fight. But so did lo duca. If you want a catcher who handles a staff well but can’t hit, what’s the difference between Varitek and the duke? I’m not saying I like either of them. I’m just saying that there isn’t that much difference. If we aren’t going to like lo duca, we probably shouldn’t be wanting varitek either.
Unless you want someone who isn’t chasing 13 year olds and betting on horses.
But more importantly, I dont want to give up a draft pick for varitek. That’s what makes the price too high for me.
Alban,that was a wack shot at lo duca.(the 13 year old girl)she was actually like 20 and now is all over playboy.She was in college at the time of that. so shut up
edit
insert *sarcasm* tag
Just a joke. I actually was sad to see lo duca’s fire go.
Same with milledge.
I’m with you. I love the WBC!
WBC CHAMPIONS:
EL EQUIPO DE LA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA!!!
B/T/W, to be a complete phoney about it…..
I will also be totally into it once it starts.
jajaa, i’m sure..
haha. That’s cool.
In my mind, the WBC is what the All Star game(s) really should be. A semi-meaningful expedition of seeing our favorite stars playing for bragging rights.
If we can cheer on our NY Mets for bragging rights and for glory, I think we can do the same thing with (insert your country here) and the WBC.
Good post….
i look at the USA roster and then Matt Lindstrom comes up…seriously he’s one of the best American relievers in baseball???
psst.. we had willie taveras in 2006.. and alberto castillo as a catcher.. this year we’ll have sammy sosa.. go figure..
I think the injury thing really is overblown. Injuries happen, whether it be in spring training, the regular season, the All-Star game or the WBC. You don’t want them, but they are part of the game.
All I can say is our players better not get hurt in the stupid WBC.
From what I can gather your threat is 100% baseless since you cannot do anything about it.
I can use ‘From what I can gather’ to start every paragraph if I want
are you getting mad at Matt??
The WBC is the worst thing to happen to baseball since the inception of the DH.
Are you people kidding me? All of the Mets would be playing even MORE games if they went to ST. And they can still get hurt in ST. You guys are worry worts.
They’re playing to represent their countries and have their countries have the chance to become real World Champions. They have a better chance of winning the WBC than winning the World Series with their mlb teams in my opinion.
This is really a tournament of Spring Training games. Totally meaningless. They are trying to duplicate the World Cup and it will never work this way. If they want to do this silliness, do it after the season. Better yet, have a real World Series with the winner of the Asian Series playing the winner of our series (Seibu vs Phillies would have been fun). Someday, if other countries such as Australia can come up with a competitive league, they can join in too.
With so many of our players in the WBC while the Phillies concentrate on what’s important, we are already behind in the race.
There is no comparison between pitching in early, meaningless Spring training games and pitching in competitive games like WBC. The main purpose of spring training is to build up arm strength and overall conditioning in a controlled, careful way. This needs to be done even though players and pitchers do general conditioning in the off season. A pitcher puts enormous stress on his arm when pitching competitively. Yes, any player can get hurt at any time but the risk is greater when the player or pitcher is not yet in top condition. Davey Johnson insisted that Mookie Wilson throw as hard as he could the first day of Spring training during his first year and Mookie’s arm was NEVER the same. Personally, I don’t care to see the WBC happen before people are in shape. They should begin spring training early and have the WBC at the END of spring training before the season begins if they insist in having it at all. But of course the players who aren’t involved would lose conditioning and timing so that wouldn’t work either…Maybe they should begin Spring Training a couple of weeks earlier and insert the WBC into the middle of it …I prefer dropping the whole thing really.
PS—The main purpose of spring training is for pitchers to build up arm and leg strength and refine mechanics, I should have said…and for players to get their timing and practice fundamentals…Having the WBC before all that happens is really screwy.