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The Colorado Rockies activated shortstop Troy Tulowitzki prior to tonight’s game with the Mets. He’s been out for two months with a torn left quadriceps muscle that he suffered on April 29. Infielder Doug Bernier was optioned to Triple-A Colorado Springs to make room on the roster.
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Former Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson spoke to XM radio yesterday about being fired by the Mets. He said that Omar Minaya delivered the news of his firing with sympathy. He said the he hopes that the Mets can get things turned around. About the Mets he said:
I don’t have any animosity or vindictive or angry thoughts. I’m sad, you’re always sad when you leave a home that you felt very comfortable at.
Too much Zen and too little pitching from Peterson this year. John Maine, Oliver Perez, and Aaron Heilman regressed this season and the Mets can’t have their young pitchers moving in the wrong direction. If you’re a regular reader, you know that my opinion is that Peterson deserved to be fired for recommending the Scott Kazmir trade. So if anything else that he did went South, he was probably on thin ice with the Mets front office.
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Steve Hensen of Yahoo Sports wrote a column today predicting which teams will be buyers and which will be sellers. He lists the Mets as buyers with this quote:
Every new manager should get a new toy, and Jerry Manuel would like a relief pitcher, a corner outfielder and a player who actually cares.
Ouch, but hard to argue with. It couldn’t take that much to get Xavier Nady back from the Pirates. Having a right handed hitting 1B/OF would be too perfect for this team.
Tim Brown, also at Yahoo Sports, says that the Mets are prepared to make a run at the Colorado Rockies Matt Holliday:
The Mets, for another, have run their horrendous September into 2½ more lethargic months, thus bearing the look of an organization on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Their offense is slightly more average than their pitching. And Moises Alou will hit for as long as his body will carry him, which, so far this season, has amounted to 49 at-bats. They spent a good amount of their farm system on Johan Santana, but team officials believe they could still make a play for Holliday, the 2007 MVP runner-up whose career splits skew so dramatically to Coors Field.
That’s too aggressive a move for my liking. Holliday is a nice player with a big bat from the right side, but he’s a one and a half year rental. The Rockies will want multiple top prospects for him. I’m sure they’ll want Fernando Martinez, John Maine, plus another players that’s under their control for several years. The price will be way too high for Holliday.
Jose Reyes led off the game against the Los Angeles Angels with a single up the middle. A great way to start Jerry Manuel’s tenure as manager of the Mets. But it quickly went south.
Reyes pulled up lame at first base with a problem with his left leg. Mets trainer Ray Ramirez and Jerry Manuel came out to talk to Reyes. Manuel decided to play it safe and replace Reyes with Damion Easley at shortstop, the logical thing to do.
Reyes responded by having a fit on the field worthy of a little leaguer. At first he refused to come out of the game. Then he threw hit helmet in front of the Mets dugout and pulled up his shirt on the way into the clubhouse.Jerry Manuel went into the clubhouse at the end of the inning and spent quite a bit of time in there. I’m sure that we’ll here more on this story tomorrow.
Although two concussions this season have side tracked Ryan Church, he’s anxious to get back on the active roster. Church visited the Mets yesterday prior to the doubleheader with the Texas Rangers. He spoke to reporters before the first game and had this to say to the NY Post:
"I just know starting [tomorrow] I’ll start working out," said a coherent-sounding Church. "I don’t know the whole timetable of what we’re going to do."
Church isn’t traveling with the team to Los Angeles and Colorado. He’s eligible to come off the disabled list on Saturday when the team is in Colorado but probably won’t re-join the team until they return home to face the Seattle Mariners.
Ryan Church called into the ESPN show “The Pulse” and it’s a really good interview. He covers everything from his concussions, Willie Randolph’s situation, to instant replay.
Trot Nixon’s flight got into JFK around 6:30pm tonight from Tucson. He’s on the active roster for tonight’s game against the Rangers. To make room on the roster Chris Aguila was designated for assignment.
Aguila was 1 for 6 in three games with two strikeouts.
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