Read: Extra Base Omir
Last night, Mets C Omir Santos hit a first-inning grand slam for his first major-league home run.
…SNY’s Ted Berg ironically calls him Extra Base Omir, but it’s becoming less ironic every day…
The 28–year-old Santos has a five-game hitting streak, during which he’s batting .300 with three extra-base hits.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, courtesy of ESPN.com, Santos is one of four active players who collected his first career RBI on a grand slam.
In a report for the Star-Ledger, Brian Costa explains why Santos chose to sign with the Mets as a minor-league free agent.
…last week, i sat in the dugout and watched santos shave down his bat handles with a plane… it was like woodshop class, as you can see in this photo i took… wood shavings were all over the bench… he told me the league will not allow black handles for the bat he uses, and he doesn’t like tape, and these are the only two bats he has, so he was shaving off 
the paint, ever so softly, trying not to thin out the handles too much… it was like watching a surgeon perform on a patient… a) i’m surprised the player is left to do this, and not some clubhouse attendant, and b) i think it’s funny that a baseball team has a wood plane lying around…
“I think he handles the game plan very well,” Jerry Manuel said of Santos last night. “The pitchers like throwing to him. He gives them a good target, he gives the umpire a very good look at pitches.”
…like i said last night before the game, from what i can gather, as long as Ramon Castro isn’t hitting, Jerry Manuel will get santos as much playing time as possible, to see what they’ve got… Brian Schneider is due back around May 3…
…it will be interesting to see what happens then, considering, according to previous reports, the Mets had been shopping castro all winter…
…in the end, santos will likely be sent back to the minors, but i do believe manuel would rather have the best defensive catcher he can find, in place of offense from that position…
