To the charges that they endured a mostly empty winter, the Mets high command has no choice but to plead guilty. But to the charge that the reason they were unable to accomplish most of their primary offseason objectives was because they had no plan, the Mets execs are emphatic: It just ain't so ...
PORT ST. LUCIE -- For someone who described the last few months as "torture," Fred Wilpon yesterday had a disposition as sunny as the sky ... After watching Johan Santana, Oliver Perez and Mike Pelfrey, among others, throw bullpen sessions on the first official day of spring workouts here, the Mets ...
TAMPA -- Free agent Carlos Delgado had hip surgery on Wednesday and will miss at least four months, his agent, David Sloane, told The Post ... Delgado, 37, had been working out recently in an attempt to sign with a major league team, but felt continuing discomfort in his right hip ...
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets seemingly ended the debate on who will be their starting catcher by yesterday signing Rod Barajas to a one-year contract, according to an industry source.The 34-year-old Barajas will move atop the club’s depth chart, ahead of Omir Santos, Henry Blanco, Josh Thole and ...
TAMPA — Spring training is about people, not results. The results, after all, are hostage to how exhibitions are played.Starters play pieces of games at a pace that honors the coming 162-game schedule and not that day’s scoreboard. Quadruple-A players litter the field late in games, the stands are ...
…personally, i think the Mets shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken, at least not yet…while he looked SPECTACULAR yesterday at Tradition Field, i’d like to see him establish his health in game situations before Jerry Manuel tinkers with Reyes’ lineup spot…i think, no matter what, Reyes is best as a top of the lineup catalyst who [ ... ] ...
The Wilpon family isn't getting out of the baseball business anytime soon. On the day pitchers and catchers staged their first spring-training workout, principal owner Fred Wilpon surveyed the 2010 Mets, then predicted his family would own the team for "generations." ...
Not quite, but read this via Newsday’s David Lennon:Sean Green approaching Chad Bradford territory with low sidearm delivery. Not quite scraping ground, but close. Looked good with it though. If my memory serves me correctly Green started messing with this delivery last September. I thought of Bradford right away when I saw it. Green was [ ... ] ...
…i think the value in adding Rod Barajas is with his defense, although he committed the most errors of any American League catcher in 2009…he is excellent at throwing out would-be base stealers, and he will add some pop, but won’t hit much outside of that…more importantly, it gives the Mets the opportunity to see [ ... ] ...
The Mets have a new catcher to pair with backup Henry Blanco. Rod Barajas agreed Saturday to a major league contract with a $1 million base salary and another $1 million in easily attainable incentives ...