A Change in the Outfield Outlook

The Matt den Dekker wrist injury may have cost him dearly as a future Met. Obviously, he will go on the DL and the Mets are going to have to put together a future pla without him in centerfield. Off the top, Kirk Nieuwenhuis gets a do-over and, if he turns a bad spring around, he could make den Dekker look like the guy that sat down to let Lou Gehrig play one day.

Folks, Marlon Byrd had a nice spring, Collin Cowgill has made it interesting, and Lucas Duda is waking up, but, at best, this is a bad outfield and needs at least two more working parts if they want to compete someday in the playoffs.

We all love what den Dekker does in the outfield, but you simply can’t .210 in the majors. In retrospect, I wish they left him on the minors section of the camp. He needed another year in the hitting-friendly Vegas air to get his hitting confidence back. Oh well.

With the den Dekker injury, the Las Vegas outfield looks to open with Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Juan Lagares, Andrew Brown, Jamie Hoffman, and one from a group including Carlos Torres, Corey Paterson, and Mike Wilson.

The B-Met outfield (on paper) looks to be Corey Vaughn, Cesar Puello, Alonzo Harris, and Pedro Zapata.

St. Lucie looks to be Darrell Cecilliani, Gilbert Gomez, Travis Taijerson, and Charlie Thurber.

Savannah could be any combination of Jeff Glenn, Stefan Sabol, Greg Pron, Brandon Nimmo, Eudy Pena, and Dustin Lawley.