CUTNPASTE: - Fernando Martinez, Ike Davis, Johan Santana... and Luis Hernandez

Fernando Martinez:


link  - Fernando Martinez OF (Dom Rep) - The Mets should put him in a bubble and roll him into the outfield. He hasn’t had a year go by when he wasn’t on the DL. He only hit .176 in an opportunity last year that he lost because of an injury that put him out for the season and this year he is at .167. He needs to start producing to reach his potential



Ike Davis:


link  - After a hot start in April, Ike Davis hit poorly for four months. From May through August he posted a .241/.323/.412 slash line, hardly what a team expects from a slugging first baseman. When September came around, he heated up again. He came into today with a .400 average for the month, 12 for 30 with three doubles and three home runs. He kept that up today with a 4 for 4 performance, three singles and a double as he drove in three. His offense on Saturday helped the Mets to a 4-3 win over the Phillies. I suppose it’s good for a player to finish strong. The Mets will have a more positive image of him going into next season, deserved or not.



Johan Santana:


link  - The 2007 Winter Meetings were all about Johan Santana. The Twins wanted Jon Lester from the Sox. Or Phil Hughes from the Yankees. Hank Steinbrenner, the Fredo of the Steinbrenner family, was running the team at that point and calling back every baseball writer in the room to boast about how he would get Santana in pinstripes. It didn't happen. When the Yankees didn't get him, it looked for a day like the Red Sox were going to land Santana in return for Lester and Coco Crisp. Or Lester and Jacoby Ellsbury. Imagine how happy they are now. Santana needs shoulder surgery and nobody is sure when he will be back. The lefty, whose velocity has been in decline, may never be the same again and the Mets still owe him $77.5 million over three years.



Luis Hernandez


link  - Hernandez is a 26 year old with almost 900 career minor league games and a career .250/.302/.331 line that does not even hold water in this light-hitting group. He has played his high-contact game into some decent batting averages the last two years, if light on the power and OBP. He’s a little like Arias without the speed, but he does have one thing over the spidery one: he can play shortstop. At least, Total Zone thinks he can. if the backup second baseman is supposed to be the backup shortstop, which makes sense from a roster flexibility standpoint, then Hernandez might actually win a spot on the team next year.