Mets: Danny Muno, Terry Collins, Ruben Tejada, Johan Santana

2-10-12 - http://seedlingstostars.com/2012/02/10/s2s-2012-team-prospect-lists-new-york-mets/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter   - #4.) Danny Muno, SS. This is the sort of profile I love–middle-of-the-diamond player, plus approach, switch-hitter with punch. An 8th-round pick in 2011, Muno promptly hit .355/.466/.514 in the NYPL. He was 22, so it might be best for him to skip straight to High-A this year, but he has the potential to be a starting middle infielder or excellent utility player. Guys who can play the middle infield spots while maintaining good on-base skills and ripping some doubles don’t grow on trees. Grade: B-

He arrived a few years too late, truth be told. Terry Collins would have been the perfect manager to guide the Contender Mets of a few years back, the 2006-08 heartbreak kids who always found a way to spill tomato sauce all over the final chapters of their stories and their seasons. We know that now, of course, because we saw the work he did with last year’s Mets, we saw the patience he has discovered late in the game, the way he relates not only to kids fighting every day for their livelihoods but to stars, too. We saw how he kept the team together after that 5-13 start, and when the annual injury purge struck, how they were .500 as late as Aug. 10 and only one game under on Sept. 7. : http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/the_right_manager_for_the_wrong_ErCS8ZaT2v0OO53HPCxEjI#ixzz1n789fAjH

Ruben Tejada isn’t due in camp until Saturday, but manager Terry Collins already has a motivational speech waiting for the Mets’ new starting shortstop. “Jose Reyes is a great player, we’re going to miss him,” Collins said yesterday. “But this young man who is going to play shortstop, he’s an outstanding talent, and he’s going to make some boo-boos along the way, but with his makeup he’s got a chance to move real fast to be a special player. I’m going to tell him that the first day. “Therefore, you’ve got to work harder than everyone else. Don’t think for one minute you can take this for granted because you’re the guy now. If you’re the guy, you have to work harder than everybody else.”  http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/collins_tejada_can_be_special_YrzP7siMUPfxUXErwWwHTM#ixzz1n78v0ItG

Johan Santana expected to have a better idea later in spring training after seeing how his shoulder responded after facing major league competition. “Opening Day’s always good,” he said. “But again, I’m approaching everything one day at a time. Going through everything last year, one day you feel good and another you don’t feel good, it’s like a roller coaster.”  http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/02/22/mets-johan-santana-wont-make-any-guarantees-for-opening-day/