Second Base

Now, I read that Josh Satin is hitting .438 in the AFL, has been elevated from the taxi squad to a full time role, and has returned to his natural position of second base, rather than first base.



What have we been saying for two years?



Satin is a pure hitter with a bum rap for a bad fielder. It just isn’t true. He hit .311, 12-HR, 74-RBI for combined Bing/Lucy last season, hit .288, 6-HR, 65-RBI in 2009 for Gnats/Lucy, and .303 for K-Port/Clones in 2008. Do you see a trend here?



All of a sudden everybody is playing second base. Reese Havens was moved there from short. So was Jordany Valdespin. Ditto Ruben Tejada. And, did we forget Daniel Murphy?



And yet, Luis Castillo still sits in Queens making $6mil for 2011 and Sandy Alderson flies south to visit him on his turf.


Here’s the rub. No one is ready to take the job away from Castillo, and the best thing may just be to let the guy play one more year in Queens. Yes, he’s a poster boy for Mets fans' animosity, but he’s not the poster boy. That belongs to Ollie.



You don’t like that idea?



Okay, how about signing David Eckstein for a year, put Satin on short, and all you have to do is convert David Wright and you have an all-Jewish infield.



Seriously, any desire to trade Valdespin before the Rule V draft crashed when he came up lame this week. Yes, I know. Another injured Mets second baseman.



My guess right now:



2011: Queens: Castillo/Murphy platoon


Buffalo: Satin


Binghamton: Havens


Rule V Loss: Valdespin