Video: Jose Reyes and David Wright 2010 Preview

This video is the third part of a 2010 preview series I did with Kerel Cooper of On The Black and Joe Janish of Mets Today. You can see our 2010 Mets offseason grades and our preview of Mets catchers, Daniel Murphy and Luis Castillo. In this video we cover David Wright and Jose Reyes. Both had horrible seasons in 2009 but for different reasons. Reyes only played in 36 games due to injuries and Wright just had a rotten season offensively.

http://blip.tv/play/guougcvxbwI%2Em4v

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Video: Review of Mets Catchers, Daniel Murphy, Luis Castillo

This is the second in a series of videos that I did with Kerel Cooper of On The Black and Joe Janish of Mets Today. You can see the first video in the series about grading the Mets’ 2010 offseason.

This video is tackling a few tough subjects: the catchers, Luis Castillo, and Daniel Murphy. See what we have to say below and add your comments.

http://blip.tv/play/guougcvaRAI%2Em4v

Video: Mets’ Oliver Perez on 2010

Here’s some video from Newsday on Oliver Perez talking about getting ready for the 2010 season. It sounds like he’s trying to put 2009 in the past quickly. It was a year in which he only made 14 starts because of a mysterious “injury” that occurred to his knee. Perez spent time getting ripped by minor league hitters after similar occurrences in the majors. His 6.82 ERA and .273 BAA against is enough to make you ill.

The word is that he spent the offseason working hard in Arizona. We’ll see if it pays off or if the $24 million that the Mets still owe him is a lost cause.

http://www.newsday.com/swf/newsday/newsdayVP.v.2.08.swf?videoId=14357

Mets Links: Jose Reyes, Luis Castillo, Jerry Manuel, More

New York Mets Jerry Manuel walks with his head down to the dugout against the St. Louis Cardinals at Citi Field in New York

I’m trying to be positive on the day that Mets single game tickets go on sale. It’s tough to do that after the team drove straight into a brick wall in 2009, but this is a new season. I’m ready for the Mets to start winning some games next month when the real games start. And I’m hoping that they can get some payback on some teams, especially in the division, that beat them down pretty badly last year.

The links below are pretty negative about the team, in general. I think that’s partially due to the news about the team but it’s also because it’s so much easier to write a negative story than a positive one. Negative stories seem to attract more attention than stories about how everything in great in Mets nation, if there is such a thing. I don’t think the Mets situation is ideal right now but I’m not completely down on them either.

How can you be completely down on the team with the highest payroll in the National League? The highest payroll certainly doesn’t guarantee wins as we saw last year. But it sure gives the Mets a chance to be in it to the end. This isn’t a Pirates situation going on here. There’s no rebuilding or looking forward to two or three years down the road. The Mets roster has a legitimate shot to be in the race late in the 2010 season.

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Video: Jose Reyes Thyroid Problem

The Mets sent Jose Reyes back to New York after tests showed that he has a hyperactive thyroid. I don’t know if it’s a situation that could affect him on the field. I would guess there may be varying levels of severity, but I’m not a doctor. We should hear what impact, if any, this will have on Reyes playing the season and the rest of his career.

This news is a big blow to the Mets, with Carlos Beltran already out until May, because the flashbacks of last season’s injury-plagued disaster is still so fresh in our minds. Stephania Bell has a good piece on ESPN about what the injury could mean for Reyes going forward.

Here’s some video from ESPN:

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Video: Mets 2010 Season Preview [ESPN]

We’re going to start seeing and reading a lot of season previews over the next couple of weeks. Here’s the first from ESPN’s Buster Olney. It’s a good, in-depth video with cuts from Jason Bay and discussion of Jose Reyes and Oliver Perez.

The bottom line is that the Mets are expected to contend in 2010.
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