Location: Flushing, N.Y. | Ballpark: Citi Field (42,000) (inaugural season) | Spring Training: Port St. Lucie, Fla. Owner: Fred Wilpon | GM: Omar Minaya | Manager: Jerry Manuel | World Championships: 2
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POWER RANKINGS
Power Rankings
Date
Ranking
Previous
07/07/2009
21
18
Just another typical week in the sad burg of Metville: plenty of I-got-it-I-got-it-uh-maybe-I-don't-got-it-do-you-got-it?-uh-oh hijinks in the field, a no-show against a heated rival (three runs in three games against a pitching staff so desperate for reinforcements that they're eyeing Pedro Martinez? Eesh.) and a Furry convention awaiting them when they arrived at their Pittsburgh lodgings early last Thursday. La di da ... They boast a single reliable starting pitcher, a paucity of patient hitters and blooper-reel defense. This can't happen in New York, where there are seats to fill and punny tabloid headlines to inspire, but the Mets would be better off shipping their few useful parts -- Ryan Church, Brian Schneider, whoever -- to a legit contender than sacrificing whatever little is left of their farm system to add a medium-rare thumper like Josh Willingham.
06/30/2009
18
16
They're playing at way less than full strength. I get this. But among their many other sins against baseball during the last week, they bunted their fifth hitter in the sixth inning -- the sixth! -- of a one-run game. A few innings after that, their sportsmanlike closer walked an opposing pitcher with five career plate appearances to his name with the bases loaded. These, my friend, are desperate times, especially with the Brewers, Phillies and Dodgers on the immediate horizon ... Meanwhile, they appear more clueless about the status of their injured players than any team in baseball. Carlos Beltran was last spotted flying to Colorado to get a second (read: better) opinion on his knee, while the Mets expect Carlos Delgado back sometime between Thursday and September. What a mess.
06/23/2009
16
15
The good news: they wake up this morning only 1½ games back in the droopy NL East. The bad: they do so with a roster populated by Jeremy Reeds, Pat Misches and Nick Evanses. Sooner or later, the lack of healthy front-line talent will manifest itself in a big ol' losing streak ... My favorite non-argument of the 2009 season took place over Johan Santana's health. It can be summarized thusly. Santana: "I feel OK." Rick Peterson, who doesn't work for the Mets anymore and ostensibly hasn't examined Santana in a year: "No, you don't. Your knee is messed up." And people say our national healthcare system needs fixing ... For what it's worth, CitiField is nicer in every way that matters than the new Yankee Stadium. In the wake of my inaugural journey there last night, I have a rough case of the meat sweats this morning. I regret nothing.
06/16/2009
15
10
They increased their league lead in "losing games they should've won" by three last week ... The mob couldn't make a cooperating witness disappear as efficiently as the Mets have Oliver Perez ... Johan Santana served up four home runs in one of his starts last week and allowed nine runs in the other. Is nothing sacred anymore? Already the recent pratfalls have been blamed on a blister and knee pain, so stay tuned.
06/09/2009
10
9
They blew it. Injuries or no, you have to do better than a 2-4 road trip to Pittsburgh and D.C. They went 7-5 in a 12-game stretch against the Nats, Marlins, Nats and Pirates, and are now fated to spend the rest of the month playing the Phillies, Yankees, Brewers, Rays and Cardinals. Good luck with that. ... Over the course of a week, Carlos Beltran went from a tummy-aching casualty of some bad eggplant parmigiana and/or possible swine-flu sufferer to a vocal leader willing to call out his underachieving mates. Given his past reticence, I hadn't realized he was gifted with the power of speech. Nicely done!
06/02/2009
9
11
It doesn't matter if they're winning with Jeremy Reed in the six hole or with one of the Carloses stationed there. They're winning. That should be enough, even if they're doing so against the league's lepers. ... The stomach virus that has gutted the Metsie clubhouse for a week and counting must be a doozie. Wash your hands, kids.
05/26/2009
11
7
This is the kind of road trip the Metsies just concluded: I was at LaGuardia airport when the team plane touched down on Sunday night. The players practically spilled onto the runway, kissing the ground as if they'd been locked up abroad and endured the vagaries of the Peruvian criminal-justice system ... They might be good or they might be bad. Half the time, they play with guile and precision. The other half, they play like a bunch of guys who weren't introduced until five minutes before the first pitch ... If they plan on getting themselves in position for another supreme September choke, now's the time to do it. Their next four series are against the Nationals, Marlins, Pirates and then the Nationals again.
05/19/2009
7
10
One day they steal seven bases, the next they make five errors and forget to touch third base before heading homeward. I don't know if they're a good team, but they certainly keep things lively. ... Maybe Mets fans should issue an apology of some sort to David Wright, who got blamed for the team's early stumbles with runners in scoring position. They've passed Boston and Philly boosters as the game's shoutiest and quickest to overreact. ... If the Metsies try Daniel Murphy at first base, he'll be one of only a few major leaguers able to play four positions incompetently. You can't put a price tag on that kind of versatility.
05/12/2009
10
21
Ain't it funny how a seven-game winning streak, including two two-game slapdowns of a division rival, can transform a team from "a collection of edgeless ninny-men" to "courageous champions of awesometown"? ... CitiField doesn't merely suppress offense; it stabs it, gores it, then stuffs it in a sack and leaves it for dead in an abandoned alleyway ... J.J. Putz isn't throwing as hard as he did in early April, which means either that he's aching or that he's made a conscious decision to embrace the Eephus pitch. Since another bullpen apocalypse will send an entire borough into an emotional tailspin, let's hope it's the latter.
05/05/2009
21
16
I'm starting to think the team's bullpen minions past and present have something personal against Johan Santana. They've blown eight leads for him since the start of 2008 ... Blaming David Wright for the Mets' offensive woes is like blaming GM Omar Minaya for poor service on the team charter: there are multiple, overlapping layers of accountability here ... The relationship between Jerry Manuel and Ramon Castro is just like the relationship between Donny and Marie, but with Donny wanting to stab Marie in the uvula and Marie wanting to narc Donny out to the IRS for claiming chest-waxing as a work expense.
Preseason Power Rankings
Date
Ranking
Previous
02/16/2009
7
-
If you're a Mets fan, you have to love that the A-Rod distraction is diverting talk-radio-wingnut attention away from your sad little left-field platoon of Fernando Tatis and Daniel Murphy. Insert could've-used-Abreu-or-Dunn blurb here. ... Carlos Beltran remains the most underrated player in baseball by a wide margin. ... They acted like the big-market team they are in rebuilding the bullpen with Frankie Rodriguez and J.J. Putz. Assuming Putz has recovered from his physical woes, he'll be the more effective of the two arms. K-Rod might have the gaudy save numbers, but his violent, left-foot-in-left-foot-out throwing motion portends a calamitous injury down the road.
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