More typical news from the Mets: Carlos Beltran has undergone arthroscopic surgery to relieve arthritis in his right knee. According to a release by the Mets, he is not expected to start baseball activities for 12 weeks.
If you do the math, that puts him into April before he’s even ready to start getting ready for the season. So, don’t expect the Mets to have him for the first few weeks of the season. This makes the Jason Bay signing all the more important.
The question now is should the Mets go out and get a lower-tier free agent outfielder to replace him until he heals or go with someone on their current roster like Angel Pagan. Experience with arthritis shows it is a recurring problem and the Mets likely will run into this situation with Beltran again in the future.
What would you do?
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I’m fine with the idea of Angel Pagan making 70-80 starts in the outfield in 2010.
I’m not fine with trying to carry Daniel Murphy through on-the-job training without Beltran in the lineup. The Mets need to replace Beltran’s offensive production.
And let the whining LOSERS start the process of looking for more excuses this year as to why they will not again WIN their division!
Oh they will be # 1 in Spring training and we will be subjected to same old attacks against the Phillies- but when the season is on- this team WILL BE GONE.
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Braves- Phillies- Marlins- METS!
Gee Gary, did you come up with that by yourself or did your Mommy help you write such witty dialogue?
Sentence composition fail!