Daniel Murphy has played in 158 games for the Mets, nearly a full season’s worth of game, while hitting .266 with nine HR, 76 strike outs, 55 RBI and 19 doubles.
…to me, this is a positive… i see a young hitter, who skipped Triple-A, who started hot, had to adjust to big-league pitchers who adjusted [...]

Last night, with one out, Dodgers 1B Mark Loretta ripped a ground ball down the first-base line, which hit the base and popped high in the sky.  Daniel Murphy reacted quickly, scurried towards second base, picked up the ball with his right hand and flipped it behind his back to Bobby Parnell covering first base for the out.
…snazzy [...]

In a report for Newsday, Jim Baumbach explains why Daniel Murphy reminds him of Dave Magadan.
Magadan’s best season for the Mets was in 1990, when he hit .328 with 40 extra base hits and 72 RBI, while striking out just 55 times in 144 games.
…i believe murphy can develop slightly more power than magadan, turning [...]

Last night, the Mets had just two hits, and scored no runs, against Cardinals RHP Joel Pineiro, who pitched nine innings and allowed only one runner to reach second base.
…pineiro was rocking a nasty slider, and was seemingly always ahead in the count… the Mets just kept topping it over and over again, all night… [...]

Daniel Murphy is batting .363 in his last five games, while striking out just three times in 22 plate appearances.
“You have to have confidence to hit, but to get hits, you have to be confident,” Murphy said, as quoted by the New York Times.
…actually, i think i read that on a fortune cookie once…
…seriously, though, [...]

In last night’s win, Daniel Murphy had a career-high five RBI, including a ‘home run,’ and a run-scoring single and a two-run double.
Murphy also made an error in with two outs in the ninth inning on a ground-ball from Christian Guzman, and had trouble picking up a low throw from Ramon Martinez in the first inning.
Following the [...]

Daniel Murphy made his first major-league start at first base last night, making four nice plays in the field, including a goalie-like, leaping grab on a hot line drive to end the fifth inning.
Prior to last night’s game, Jerry Manuel told reporters Murphy will not play the outfield again, admitting the entire experiment may have been a [...]

Update, 7:55 pm:
Prior to tonight’s game, Jerry Manuel told reporters he will no longer use Daniel Murphy in the outfield.
Murphy will start at first base tonight, as well as all three games in Boston, to determine if he’s capable of being the team’s short-term solution during the absence of Carlos Delgado.
…in other words, i fear [...]

In New York last week, Jerry Manuel told reporters he would likely use Daniel Murphy at first base on this road trip.
He said the same thing to reporters a few days ago, as did Omar Minaya yesterday in a conference call.
Yet, despite what he keeps saying, Manuel repeatedly starts Jeremy Reed at first base instead.
Murphy is batting [...]

In the eighth inning last night, the bases loaded and two outs, Jerry Manuel pinch hit for Daniel Murphy using Angel Pagan, who hit in to an inning-ending double play.
“I don’t think Murphy is swinging quite as well right now,” Manuel explained to reporters following last night’s game.  “It’s probably mechanical and fundamental right now [...]