Mets' Daniel Murphy Has Strained Muscle On Right Side; Is Day To Day
Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy has a strained muscle on his right side and is day to day after receiving a cortisone shot in New York.
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Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy has a strained muscle on his right side and is day to day after receiving a cortisone shot in New York.
The Mets' clubhouse leader has a strong message for baseball players looking to gain an edge through performance-enhancing drugs.
So will Wright be named captain of the Mets sometime soon? Collins will begin the process of what will eventually become a "C" on his No. 5 uniform, but everyone already knows who the leader and captain of this ship is.
David Wright has some unfinished business in New York, and he still has faith he can win with the Mets.
It seems unlikely that the Mets will sign Jose Valverde to join their bullpen.
"I want to treat them like they're good major league players, which they are, and not make it sound like we have guys in that room who don't belong," Collins said. "Because that's not true."
On a cold, blustery Florida Sunday -- much like it might be on Opening Day at Citi Field -- Johan Santana returned to the mound for the first time since being shut down for good last season in August.
Johan Santana will be named the Opening Day starter for the Mets and will not compete for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic.
Roger Clemens claims that his own Yankee teammates wanted to fight him just as much as Piazza did.
Barring an injury to one of the Mets projected starting pitchers, Wheeler likely will start the season at Triple-A Las Vegas.
When Marlon Byrd arrived at camp on Friday, Terry Collins sounded like he had found an answer to one of his problems.
"I'm not after Terry's job," Wally Backman said. "But my goal is definitely to manage in the big leagues."
Compare and contrast. Go ahead. It'll make the next six weeks even more interesting.
"My denials in the book have been documented all the way back, I believe, to 1997," Piazza said. "I just don't understand what part of 'no' people don't understand."
Coming off their fourth straight losing season, the Mets enter spring training with a projected rotation of Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Shaun Marcum, Matt Harvey and Dillon Gee, a quintet that combined to go 35-34 with a 3.26 ERA last season.
When owner Fred Wilpon announced in Florida that the financial turmoil that had long plagued and hindered the franchise for many years was now a thing of the past, a huge cloud of uncertainty was lifted.
Mets GM Sandy Alderson said he believes the review, which is being handled through MLB at the request of the U.S. Consulate in the Dominican Republic, was random and not because of suspected wrongdoing.
Spring training is all about optimism, and Mets owner Fred Wilpon delivered a large dose of it Wednesday in Port St. Lucie.
Piazza was perhaps the greatest-hitting catcher that baseball has ever seen. We'd like to assume that he was clean. But we can't.
Parnell on Wednesday morning said that he appreciated manager Terry Collins' phone call on Tuesday night -- the message basically being, "Get ready, we may need you."
"This is between you and me right now, I tell ya, because I haven't talked to anybody else," Collins said. "But tomorrow I'm gonna go to Bobby Parnell and tell him that he's gonna be the guy we're gonna gear up to pitch the ninth inning."
"Don't write the freaking book of you're not gonna come out and you're not gonna talk about it," WFAN co-host Boomer Esiason said Tuesday.
Criticized for not spending enough on free agents in recent years, the Indians splurged on another star. The Mets, a team also criticized for free-agent inactivity, missed out.
"In my opinion -- I want to be very clear about how I present this, OK? -- if you don't think that Mike Piazza did some type of steroid, you are crazy," WFAN co-host Craig Carton said Monday morning.
NFL players are getting their pink slips and baseball's beat writers have come to life. Yep, it's that time already. Spring training. Pitchers and catchers.
