Mets Injury Update

After an off day on Monday, the New York Mets will gets a couple of players back from injury before they open a series with the Washington Nationals. First, Jose Reyes looks to come back from a strained hamstring that he suffered earlier in the week, which has put him out for the past series with the Brewers. Also, from reports and interviews with Willie Randolph, it sounds that the Mets will get some bullpen help from Duaner Sanchez on Tuesday. The Mets setup man who hasn't pitched in a MLB game since 2006 will be back with the team tonight and the team will send rookie Carlos Muniz to Triple A.

On the bad side of the injury bug, according to Bart Hubbach of the New York Post, Pedro Martinez is expected to be out until the middle of May, possibly into June. The Mets will continue to use Nelson Figueroa as their starter, but if he falters at any point the Mets wont be afraid to go to newly signed Claudio Vargas.

A Test For Dauner Sanchez

An article for MLB.com written by Anthony DiComo talks about the health of Mets reliever Duaner Sanchez. The growing concern of the article focus not on the health of the 7th inning set-up man but whether his arm is ready for opening day. The Mets need to know if Duaner can pitch on back to back days with out feeling fatigued.

Dauner Sanchez on being ready for back to back outings:

""Everything is a process," Sanchez said of pitching on back-to-back days. "I know I can do it. Is it the right thing to do? I don't know."

As a Mets fan i can only pray that his arm can handle it. With so much talk about the Mets looking to trade a bullpen arm to get a guy like Marcus Thames, Dauner's roll becomes more and more important. I want to trust that he can go on back to back days but i am not in a rush to throw him out there in the first month of the season and risk another injury.

Ex All-Star Makes Santana Pay In First Outing

New York added another lose to their spring training record today, losing 5-4 to the Cardinals in PSL.

• Santana pitched two innings, giving up 3 runs in the first inning on a Juan Gonzalez home run. Johan gave up four hits and collected his first strikeout of the spring
• Heilman and Wagner followed Santana both pitching a scoreless inning
• Duaner Sanchez took the lose in the game after pitching one inning and giving up a run. he didn't feel any soreness in his arm after his performance
• Reyes and Clark both had two hits, Wright and Delgado also added singles of their own
• Gotay gave the Mets hope with a ninth innings home run his first of the spring

Santana finally made his Mets debut. It wasn't anything to brag about but at least its out of the way. Maybe some of the media craze will die down. It was nice to see some of the starters getting their at-bats in with most of them getting to the plate 3 times. I still can't say i am worried about the start to the Mets spring but if they are still win less going into the middle of next week the i will start to wonder whats going on......