link - It had been six years since Carlos Beltran led the Astros to within a game of the World Series with one of the best postseasons in baseball history. And six years since he broke their fans’ hearts by signing with the Mets for $119 million as a free agent. Is six years enough time to mend a broken heart? Apparently, it is not. “First year, I was offended,” Beltran said. “But now I just have to laugh. People are saying crazy things out there. I guess that’s tough love. They feel that I left this organization, I didn’t try to sign with them and all that. That’s part of the past. I have to turn the page. They have to turn the page also.” But they haven’t. Beltran was only an Astro for 90 regular-season and 12 postseason games after getting traded from Kansas City on June 24, 2004. Then he turned down the Astros’ offer – reported at the time to be for $102 million – and signed with the Mets .
link - Toward the middle part of the decade, the New York Mets searched far and wide in a quest to uncover pitching talent. The Mets opened up the check book in 2004 to sign Cuban right-hander Alay Soler to a $2.8 million major league contract, and handed out a guaranteed $4.2 million to Rice star Philip Humber, taken with the third overall pick in the draft. Venezuelan righty Deolis Guerra got a $700,000 bonus the following year, but Wichita State stud Mike Pelfrey dwarfed that amount by reeling in a guaranteed $5.25 million (with bonuses) as the ninth pick in the 2005 draft. Yet, for all of that globe-trekking and cash spent, New York’s best find over that period might just be a seventh-round pick from Defiance, Ohio — population 17,000. Jonathon Niese, inked for $175,000 in the ’05 draft, was Ohio’s first high schooler to win back-to-back state player of the year awards. Hall of Fame backstop Gary Carter, then the Mets’ Gulf Coast League manager, lobbied the club to come to terms with the lefty.
link - An organizational source told Andy Martino of the Daily News that the Mets plan on calling up Jenrry Mejia from the minors in September. Mejia missed several weeks with a rotator cuff strain, but has a 2.70 ERA and 14/9 K/BB ratio in four starts with Double-A Binghamton. According to the source, the Mets could use the 20-year-old right-hander as a starter if they continue to fade in the standings. Mejia posted a 3.25 ERA and a 17/15 K/BB ratio over 27 2/3 innings with the big club -- all as a reliever -- before being sent to the minors in June. Source: New York Daily News
link - Game ends, Mets win. On the post game show, we wait in suspense to see what happened to David. And in the end, we find out that he was feeling "lightheaded and queasy." So basically, he needed a hotdog? They couldn't have told us that in the 13th inning so we're not freaking out? And even though people have tried to explain it to me, I still don't understand how queasiness leads to limping. Which leads me to a more important question: is David playing hurt? (no... probably just sick and tired...)
link - Because they keep tight-lipped on the matter, we have no idea how profoundly the Bernie Madoff scandal has impacted the Wilpon family's desire to spend. What we do know is this: A franchise once willing to battle the Yankees for big names has withered. With the exception of the disastrous Jason Bay signing, the Wilpons have spent little on improving the ball club.
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