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7/29/09

Minor Thoughts from Tuesday




1. The Mets signed LHP Adam Pettyjohn, who must have been released… before I tell you anything else about this guy, go here and read this story:

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/article/2009-03-06/the-amazing-story-adam-pettyjohn-part-1.

Pettyjohn was a 2nd rounder who got to the majors in 2001, then was diagnosed with colon cancer. Baseball was put on hold for 2002 and he’s been fighting back ever since. His best years were 2007 in AAA: 12-4, 3.87, in 17 starts, and 2008, also in AAA: 15-6, 4.59, in 28 starts. The Mets are his 8th club.


2. Look, no one enjoys writing about a new Met than I do, and no one in baseball needs another chance more than Pettyjohn, but it’s still kind of pathetic that there wasn’t one single starter ready to be sent up at this point in the year.


3. Seems that C Luis Allen did not go on the DL, as I reported yesterday. Instead, it seems to be C Kai Gronauer who went down… tune in tomorrow to see if I am correct this time.


4. I heard from Adam Rubin tonight and things have calmed down, though I’m not sure it could ever return to normal, or what the hell normal is anymore. The Mets have apologized to Adam and he’s going back to work. I’ve know Adam for almost a year now and we talk/text/email at least once a week. He’s good guy folks would be a worthy replacement someday for a retired Jay Horowitz. How in the hell Omar turned this into a circus, I have no idea.


5. Great 10-4 victory today by the GCL Mets. RF Scott Grimes keeps waking up, going 2-3 (.320)… J-Rod slowly getting up to speed (2-5, .243)… Michael Hebert: 4.0-IP, 0-R, 1.29

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