Best Outing Of Spring For Perez

The Mets got back to their winning ways toady by defeating the Orioles 6-2 in Port St.Lucie. Oliver Perez started for the Mets and was opposed by the new #1 for Baltimore, Jeremy Guthrie. New York had the majority of their starters in the game, but still were without second basemen Luis Castillo.

• Perez threw 4 innings giving up 1 run on 3 hits while striking out one
• Jose Reyes collected his first triple and his first stole base of this spring
• Angel Pagan came up huge again with a pinch hit 2-run homer in the 7th inning. Pagan leads the league in hits with 18 this spring
• Delgado went 0-3 today making him 0-5 with 5 k's since his hip injury
• Wagner and Heilman both threw scoreless innings following Perez in the 5th & 6th inning

The Mets and Mike Pelfrey will travel to Jupiter on Thursday to take on the Cardinals and Braden Looper

It's nice to see the Mets get back on the winning track after a few games with Boston. Two great signs from this game for me. One, Angel Pagan continues to show the coaches he deserves to start in left field on opening day. I watched this kid play 3 games in person and i like him. He is very athletic and runs very well to add to the team speed. I still wouldn't mind another insurance guy like Thames (he can still backup Delgado) but only if its for a guy like Schoenweis. The 2nd thing is that the main bullpen arms are doing well this spring. It's nice to those guys putting last years collapse behind them. The alarming thing to me is the two Carlos's. Not so much Beltran because he is making some contact, but Delgado is not doing much at the plate. He is 0-5 with 5 strikeouts since coming back from the hip injury, and with him coming off a year like last year it's starting to scare me that he is breaking down. I can only pray for two more weeks with no more injuries.

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......

Mets Vs Cards in Jupiter

A slow start for the Mets this spring after two games. Today in the Grapefruit League the New York Mets were shutout by the Cardinals 7-0. John Maine saw his first action this spring and had a rocky outing. The Mets sent out a lot of starters in the field in this game with not much success in scoring runs. D-Wright sent a high fly to deep left center but was robbed of extra bases by a diving catch by ex-pitcher Rick Ankiel. Tomorrow the Mets will send out their big off-season acquisition, Johan Santana to face the Cardinals in PSL. SNY will be airing the game which starts 1:10pm.

I'm not to worried about the Mets not getting off to a fast start with the bats, that will come with more time on the field. The one thing I take from Thursdays game was seeing what the future holds for the Mets. The lineup for yesterdays game started with Reyes, F-Mart, and Wright. We also have Beltran for a handful more years too... The future is bright for the Mets cant wait to see the teenage hitting machine in action.