Tag: Bobby Bonilla

It’s 37 degrees outside as I write this and I saw a few snow flurries on the way home, but there was baseball in Port St. Lucie, Fla. this afternoon.

The Mets beat the Mets by the score of 6-2. Wilmer Flores (who almost certainly will not be a Met on Opening Day) hit a three-run homer off of LaTroy Hawkins (who, today at least, would have fit in perfectly with last year’s Mets bullpen).

Tomorrow there will be more baseball, with the Mets taking on the Washington Nationals in a game televised on SNY.

So that’s all good.

The Mets being the Mets, we also get some not-so-good.

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  Johan Santana has a “general lack of strength” and might not be ready for his Opening Day assignment on April 1. Guess it’s a good thing he’s not going to play in the World Baseball Classic, right? The Mets are calling it a “conditioning issue,” so it’s nothing to worry about… probably. (Not that worrying ever did any good anyway.)

• Pedro Feliciano went back to New York for a follow-up medical exam related to an issue with his bloodwork. Hopefully it’s nothing serious, but there’s a big problem if his absence affects the team. Who counts on a guy who last pitched in the major leagues three years ago?

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  The whole “Bobby Bonilla makes more than any of the Mets outfielders” thing just won’t die. Bonilla makes more than Mike Trout will get this year for playing baseball, too. If you’re a baseball player, a baseball player’s agent or a baseball player’s wife, feel free to obsess over their salaries. But it’s time for the rest of us to acknowledge that baseball salaries have next to nothing to do with playing ability.

I don’t really know what to make of this one, but the Baseball Prospectus projections MetsBlog shared today are … interesting. The Mets are supposed to win 80 games and finish in third place. Encouraging, right? Well, Baseball Prospectus thinks that the Washington Nationals will take the division title with 86 wins and Atlanta’s National League team will finish second with 82 wins, so either the whole division is going to end up beating itself up or their projections are kinda screwy.