According to Jonathan Lemire at the NY Daily News, David Wright is the most likely Met to join Yankees Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Derek Jeter and
George Steinbrenner on display at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum on W. 42nd St.
When this happens, Wright will be the first Met to be personified in wax at the [...]

Mets 2B Anderson Hernandez sprained his ankle during a winter-league playoff game this weekend, reports Licey.com.
According to the report, Hernandez should be able to play in the next round of the playoffs.

Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe recently talked with Mets GM Omar Minaya, who had the following to say regarding…
Pedro Martinez…
“Once they get operated on like that, in my mind, I’m giving them a year.  But who knows?  Pedro’s got the heart of a lion.  I’m certainly not depending on him for the first half.  [...]

Former Mets pitching coach Vern Ruhle passed away Saturday night after a year-long battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
Ruhle, who was 55, played for the Tigers, Astros, Indians and Angels from 1974 through 1986.  He joined Art Howe’s coaching staff in 2003 and left the following year to assume the same [...]

According to Bill Madden in the Daily News, “Willie Randolph seems headed into the last season of his contract as a lame duck.”
Randolph will earn $700,000 this season, the final year of a three-year deal.
Madden writes…
“I do not pretend to know what sort of raise Randolph is seeking, but assuming it is even to just double [...]

In the Chicago Sun-Times, Chris De Luca writes that the Cubs ‘appear poised’ to sign OF Cliff Floyd to a one-year contract.

Free-agent RHP Tomo Ohka will decide this week whether to pitch for the Nationals, Pirates or Blue Jays, reports the Boston Globe.