Saturday Applesauce

Dan Murphy, promoted to Triple-A for last night's game, will join the Mets in Houston tonight. Murphy hit .308/.374/.496 in 357 at-bats with Double-A Binghamton (stats) this season and went 1-for-4 with a walk with New Orleans last night. He's 23, has pretty good plate discipline and strike zone judgment and good pop in his bat. He's been playing third base, so I don't know if the plan is to give David Wright a day off here and there (the Mets begin a stretch where they will play games on 23 straight days starting Tuesday), though he will definitely be used off the bench and possibly in the outfield. Omar Minaya has hinted that we may see Jon Niese, Robert Parnell, Eddie Kunz and Fernando Martinez over the next two months, so Murphy's callup may just be the tip of the iceberg (hopefully the part of the iceberg that breaks away and floats out to sea is Marlon Anderson).

John Maine is going to miss his next scheduled start, but doesn't think his injury is a big deal. Dr. Maine said:

"Things are just a little out of line back there. I don’t exactly know, but it's no big deal."

Luis Castillo made his first rehab start with the GCL Mets yesterday. *crickets*

Tom Tango makes the case for Edgar Martinez's Hall of Fame enshrinement. Martinez probably won't make the hall because he rarely played the field and he didn't compile the numbers that have become the benchmarks of would-be inductees (3000 hits, 500 homeruns, etc.). Martinez was simply a splendid hitter, batting .312/.418/.515 for his career including .294/.406/.489 as a 40-year-old in 2003. He played his entire career with the Mariners and posted an aggregate 147 OPS+, the same as current hall-ers Willie McCovey, Mike Schmidt and Willie Stargell and far better than many others.