If/when Minaya and Manuel are fired, the essential thing for the team is that the Wilpons (particularly Jeff Wilpon if he's calling the shots now) ask themselves some tough questions: "Do I (Jeff) have enough knowledge of business to help run operations at all? Do I have enough knowledge of baseball to give input on personnel decisions?" The team, despite its Bernie Madoff woes, will have more resources than most other teams. With any luck, the Wilpons will hire a management team that understands management and baseball, a team that uses its experiences to learn from its mistakes, uses statistics and scouting properly to inform decisions and doesn't reverse-engineer rationals for actions. Then maybe the Wilpons can start thinking of putting some champagne on ice. - HBT
"It puts me back in the situation of where I thought I should have been in the first place. Not taking away from anything Murphy’s done. From where I came from, it’s where I think I should have been anyway. For me in that sense, it’s another opportunity to be able to prove that point." Even when he didn’t fit in the lineup, he did fit in the locker room. In the spring training clubhouse he was in the corner with David Wright and Jose Reyes, players he knew from his days coming through the Mets’ system. "You know, it’s something that I’ve always had in the back of my mind, that it would be pretty cool if I could come back and play here," Jacobs said. -
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With it becoming official that Mets shortstop Jose Reyes will begin the regular season on the disabled list while recovering from a thyroid condition, talk goes to who will be his temporary replacement. While it looks like Alex Cora with get a majority of at-bats, 20-year-old Panamanian Ruben Tejada has made some noise this spring with a .328/.400/.414 line, and one scout thinks he's a better option thanks to an overall game that is polished beyond his years.
"He's such an accomplished player," gushed the scout. "He's already making the routine plays routinely, and he can make the difficult ones as well. He's a fast-forward defender who knows how to slow the game down and let things come to him."
As for his offense, the scout also thought he'd be fine, as long as one tempers expectations: "He doesn't have the tools to be a star, but he works the count, makes contact and should be more than good enough to hold his own." - BP
Carter: The 27-year-old outfielder/first baseman impressed the Mets by hitting .393 with four homers this spring. They also loved his intense demeanor. But he has minor-league options remaining, so it was easier to send him down than risk losing the veteran Catalanotto. “We’re very happy to have him, and as I told him, we like him short term, we like him long term and I expect him to be here sometime this year and help us win a game,” Minaya said. - nj.com
Team officials asked fans to choose a nickname from among 10 finalists when New York was awarded an expansion National League franchise in 1961. The finalists were Avengers, Bees, Burros, Continentals, Jets, Mets, NYBS, Rebels, Skyliners, and Skyscrapers. The team received 2,563 mailed entries, which included 9,613 suggestions, and 644 different names. Mets was the resounding winner, followed by two nicknames that weren’t among the team’s 10 suggestions—Empires and Islanders. As the New York Times noted, “what the fans will call the team when it begins play, of course, will depend in part on how it performs.” One of the reasons that team officials chose Mets was because “it has a brevity that will delight headline writers.” Another reason was the nickname’s historical baseball association. The New York Metropolitans, often called the Mets, played in the American Association from 1883 to 1888 - mentalfloss
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