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Following up on this fanpost by ams258, the Mets seem to have finalized their opening day roster. Pending any last-minute injury updates, your 2008 New York Mets:

The Regulars

Jose Reyes, SS
Luis Castillo, 2B
David Wright, 3B
Carlos Delgado, 1B
Angel Pagan, LF
Carlos Beltran, CF
Ryan Church, RF
Brian Schneider, C

The Rotation

Johan Santana, LHP
Pedro Martinez, RHP
John Maine, RHP
Oliver Perez, LHP
Mike Pelfrey, RHP

The Bullpen

Billy Wagner, LHP
Aaron Heilman, RHP
Pedro Feliciano, LHP
Scott Schoeneweis, LHP
Jorge Sosa, RHP
Matt Wise, RHP
Joe Smith, RHP

The Bench

Raul Casanova, C
Marlon Anderson, UTIL
Damion Easley, UTIL
Brady Clark, OF
Endy Chavez, OF

Pagan will start tomorrow afternoon against LHP Mark Hendrickson. I would expect Endy Chavez to get most of the playing time against righties, for better or worse. Casanova will be demoted as soon as Ramon Castro returns from his right hamstring injury. Duaner Sanchez and Orlando Hernandez were both placed on the disabled list retroactive to March 27 and March 29, respectively. Both will likely need at least a couple more weeks to get ready for the regular season, and how soon they come back may depend on how well Joe Smith and Mike Pelfrey pitch over the first half of April. If Pelfrey and/or Smith can distinguish themselves at all in their first few appearances, the Mets may be more inclined to keep Sanchez and Hernandez in extended spring training. If Pelfrey and Smith pitch poorly in the early going, the Mets will be reluctant to stick with them any longer than is absolutely necessary.

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not too shabby.

I hope Pelfrey can keep it together. Other than that, I'm satisfied.

Time to come out of my hibernation from posting! I just bought myself a Santana jersey, just in time for opening day.

LET'S GO METS!!!

EAMUS METROPOLIS!

by pingel on Mar 30, 2008 6:08 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Atta boy

Welcome back. I'd have preferred to see Gotay in there instead of Clark, but under the circumstances I think the rest of the decisions were pretty solid. A more credible backup to Moises Alou should have been secured earlier in the offseason, given that Alou can be counted on to miss 40-60 games a year. I don't have a lot of confidence in Pagan/Chavez to provide anything resembling average offense in left, so unless there's a savior out there available via trade (Nady?), the Mets will just hope to squeeze enough "O" out of the Endy/Angel tandem and shut down the opposition with pitching.

by Eric Simon on Mar 30, 2008 6:16 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Not bad, but I agree with

Eric--we needed to find a bat in LF much earlier, and it isn't hard to find a R-H masher, what with Endy for defense. Pagan hasn't hit in the majors yet, so colored me dissatisfied with LF even after Alou comes back.

What are the chances of AHernandez coming back up sooner rather than later?

As long as there are history tests, there'll be prayer in school.

by Lee_May on Mar 30, 2008 6:22 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Not nuts about Pagan

He's been pretty terrible throughout his career - not sure why the Mets think one good spring means that will change. Other than that though, this is a very good team. Probably the best pitching staff since 2000 - maybe even 1986.

by ams258 on Mar 30, 2008 7:26 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

who

were they going to keep up instead of pagan...?

by gogomets on Mar 30, 2008 7:57 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Nobody

At this point they had nobody better. They *should* have had somebody better, but they didn't.

by Eric Simon on Mar 30, 2008 8:02 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

As Donald Rumsfeld once said

You don't go to war with the Army you want, you go to war with the Army you have. Looks OK to me. Could have lots of close, low scoring games that I like. Let's go Mets.

Save America. Impeach Bush

by elifriedman on Mar 30, 2008 10:12 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Errr...

Is anyone else underwhelmed by the portion of the lineup that isn't Reyes, Wright or Beltran?

by JoshNY on Mar 30, 2008 10:40 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

yeah

It's not a great offensive team. Alou is more important to his team that he should be at this point. His absence makes the lineup shallow.

by DoctorK16 on Mar 30, 2008 11:54 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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