David Wright

As if the 2009 season couldn't get any worse for the Metropolitans, Pedro Martinez had to go and embarrass them on national television last night. While Tim Redding (who I can't stand) pitched his ass off for the Mets, their anemic offense couldn't help him out. The Phillies' famously potent lineup was held to just one run...

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This isn't the way Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya drew things up in the offseason.

The Mets put yet another star on the disabled list, this time center fielder Carlos Beltran. He joins Carlos Delgado and Jose Reyes on the DL, and that's just in the lineup.

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(Note: I posted this a couple of days ago on my other blog at FanNation.)

When it comes to the Mets' starting rotation, I think all of their replacement-level options are better than Tim Redding. Redding's stuff is disgraceful, and his general approach to the craft of pitching is laughable. He's been embarrassed in his last two starts -- recently against the Marlins, and the Red Sox before that -- and there is little-to-no indication of potential improvement. I don't think there is any doubt at this point...

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Jose Reyes-SS

2. Daniel Murphy-LF

3. Carlos Beltran-CF

4. David Wright-3B

5. Ryan Church-RF

6. Ramon Martinez-2B

7. Jeremy Reed-1B

8. Omir Santos-C

Notice the three highlighted players: Church, Martinez, and Reed. If you don't already know, Church got himself picked off of first base in the previous night's game, and then proceeded to miss third base after Angel Pagan's clutch shot to the right-center gap. 

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Sheffield isn't terrible but he's definitely not David Wright. With Beltran and Wright separated in the order, they can both be pitched around so the opposition can go after Sheff, Tatis, Murphy or whomever else follows Beltran or Wright in the order. 

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I say go for it and make a bold move. Why not, right?

3. David Wright - Why is he striking out at such a prodigious rate? And why do I suddenly have no faith in him to come through in a big spot? At least he seems to be heating up finally and at least he seems to be just as angry and frustrated as I am. Someone please page Cliff Floyd...

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Before I get to the actual list, I must say when I posted this on FanNation, readers were complaining about the omission of the New York Mets' star-studded infield.

The funny thing is, I'm a Mets fan. And yet I ranked both the Braves and Phillies' infields ahead of the Metropolitans. Talk about reserving one's biases...

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oat.  As a result, many have opined that the Mets’ core of offensive talent (Jose Reyes, David Wright and Carlos Beltran) is simply unable to take the team to the next level, and should be broken up via trades.  Let’s take a look at what getting rid of those players would mean for the Mets, one by one.

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al last night.  The Mets 3-4-5 hitters are a combined 1-23 so far this series, and Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado have managed a measly two singles in 30 at-bats in the two games.

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games, Carlos Delgado has batted .194 this season, while Carlos Beltran has batted just .235.  David Wright has hit just .231 with two outs and RISP, while Beltran has hit just .164 in those situations.  In the final three innings of games, Wright has hit only .232 and Beltran has hit just .217.  All season long the Mets' best hitters have struggled in extra innings.  Jose Reyes' batting average in the 10th inning or later is .235 and Beltran's is .167.  In the ninth inning or later Carlos Delgado's average is just .176.  Far too often this season the Mets' offense has poured it on early and then gone to sleep, while the bullpen allowed the opposition to chip away and get back in the game.

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up game against the Pirates was to get on top early and send Pittsburgh packing quickly.  When David Wright knocked a three-run home run to right center in the first, and Pedro Martinez allowed only one run through six innings, the game seemed to be following how it was scripted.  But then on came the New York bullpen.

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y off balance.

    But after Pedro allowed a couple of baserunners in the seventh, David Wright made a costly error on a Brian Giles cue shot with two outs, that allowed Luis Rodriguez to score the go-ahead run.  Eddie Kunz allowed a solo homer, the first round-tripper he's given up in more than three years, for a bit of insurance, but it was no matter because the Mets went down in order against Trevor Hoffman, the all-time saves leader, in the ninth anyway, and the Padres evened the series at 1-1.  Wright had also made a significant baserunning error in the fifth inning, getting doubled off at first on a Carlos Beltran fly ball to right field.

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an in the minors but requested some work at second base and the outfield--a smart move, considering David Wright isn't going anywhere anytime soon--is getting the start in left field tonight agains the Padres.  The Mets really love the way he hits, so he could be a fixture at the major league level for the remainder of the season and perhaps into the future.  And rumor has it that the Mets are considering calling up Jon Niese to make a few starts in Maine's stead.

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lowing just the one first-inning run, after the bullpen blew an eighth-inning lead on Monday.  David Wright gave the Mets an early lead with an RBI double in the first and Carlos Beltran put New York ahead with a rare two-out RBI single in the sixth.  Carlos Delgado jacked a two-run homer in the eighth for insurance, and Heilman pitched two scoreless innings for the hold, before Billy Wagner tossed a perfect ninth for his 27th save.

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demark hideous defense was marked by two defensive lapses in the eighth, the first of which allowed David Wright to scamper from first to third on a Delgado grounder.  He then score the go-ahead run on Fernando Tatis' grounder to short, which may have been an inning-ending double play had Hanley Ramirez not thrown errantly to first.  In the bottom of the eighth, after the Marlins scored two to go ahead 4-3, Scott Schoenweis threw a wild pitch with the bases loaded, scoring one, and then to add insult to injury, gave up a two-run double on the next pitch to put the game out of reach.

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ee more homers, including another from Tatis, a two-run shot from Ramon Castro and a solo bomb from David Wright.  Santana chimed in with two hits of his own, and his first RBI as a Met, and the team cruised to the victory to conclude a 4-2 homestand against two contending teams in the Phillies and Cardinals.  The bullpen got a much-needed break, so they'll be fresh when the Mets open a three-game series in Florida Monday night against the Marlins.  John Maine and Ricky Nolasco are the scheduled starters.

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lded just one run over seven innings for his ninth win, and seventh in his last eight starts.  David Wright doubled in a run in the third, Jose Reyes tripled in two in the fourth, and Delgado (who else?) broke the game open with a two-run home run, his 20th of the year, in the fifth.  Argenis Reyes tacked on his first career homer in the seventh, and the Mets trumped the Cards 7-2.  The Phillies lost to Atlanta, so heading into tonight's game the Mets sit atop the NL East by two full games, at 56-47.

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ace tie with the Phillies for the lead in the NL East.  Lately it hasn't only been Jose Reyes, David Wright and Carlos Beltran leading the offense; Carlos Delgado has been on fire recently and came through with the clutch, game-tying hit in the seventh inning on Sunday, and the Mets' bench players have been carrying the torch as well.  The "irregulars," (as Mets television broadcaster Gary Cohen puts it) such as Fernando Tatis, Endy Chavez, Damion Easley and Ramon Castro, have been igniting the Mets' offense for the past three weeks.  But two new players with anything but household names were just as instrumental to the Mets' success in Cincy as anyone getting paid upwards of $12 million per year:  Argenis Reyes and Robinson Cancel.

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by Javier Valentin.  But the offense continued to roll, as Carlos Delgado, Fernando Tatis and David Wright each hit two-run homers, and the Mets pounded out 10 runs, including four in the ninth off closer Francisco Cordero.  Wright's bomb tied the game with one out, and Delgado followed three batters later with the go-ahead RBI single.  The victory moves the Mets into a first place tie with the Phillies at 52-44.

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Willie could take a hard line against allowing players to grow beards, yet still permit Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Delgado and others to dance and put together handshake routines in celebration of home runs.

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layers such as Tatis, Damion Easley, Endy Chavez, Ramon Castro and Brian Schneider.  Naturally David Wright has been solid too, hitting .344 this month with six RBI, and hopefully Beltran's big game last night will break him out of his recent funk.

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nday night in Philadelphia was no different.  Timely hitting by Damion Easley, Endy Chavez and David Wright gave New York a commanding 8-0 third inning lead, and Pedro Martinez looked to be back on track, allowing just two solo home runs through 5 1/3 innings.  At first it seemed the two runs the Mets scored off R.J. Swindle (whose out pitch apparently is a 55-mph hanging curveball) to make it 10-1 in the sixth, were just gravy.  However, as the Mets' bullpen proceeded to methodically give the lead back, allowing seven runs over the final three innings, Pedro's RBI single off Swindle proved to be valuable insurance, and ultimately the difference in the game.  When it was all said and done New York held on by the skin of their teeth for the 10-9 victory, and took three out of four from the first-place Phillies over the weekend to move within 2.5 games of the division lead--but they certainly could have looked better in doing so.  That Billy Wagner was awarded a save in return for allowing two runs in the ninth and almost blowing the game calls into question whether three-run leads should qualify as save situations at all.  Wagner was downright awful, but still "saved" the Mets from yet another brutal collapse.

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 Who do Mets fans want up with the game on the line more than David Wright?  It was the bottom of the 11th and after a lead off walk to Jose Reyes and letting two other runners on base by the Pirates,

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gory, who will win the awards, and who are the flops.  Enjoy!1B Albert Pujols2B Chase Utlery3B David WrightSS Hanley RamirezC Geovany SotoOF Carlos LeeOF Alfonso SorianoOF Matt HolidaySP Johan SantanaSP Roy OswaltSP Jake PeavyCLOSER Billy Wagner or Bob Howry or Kerry Wood

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