Who knows, if Havens can stay healthy, he could be in Triple-A by midseason this year anyway. He really was a beast last year, but between the FSL and hitting a few too many popups, it was obscured. He’ll be facing many of the same pitchers next year, but this time, he’ll have a much shorter RF to shoot for and the nasty Florida weather patterns and big parks won’t be there to contain him so much. He should at the very least be in big league camp next spring, perhaps even with a chance to win the job.

I guess its much easier for the mets to cut him with one year left. I guess the best argument would be that if they don’t win a lot, there’s a chance there is a new regime in place that would’ve cut Castillo two offseasons ago.

Anyways, If Omar’s still around and does manage to offload Castillo, wouldn’t he just then sign Hudson, who will be a FA again, regardless of how smart/dumb that signing would be just because he knows that the media has wanted him for two years?

I guess I’m saying I dont think that Tejada or Havens will be the Mets starting 2B next April.

He’s gotten enough exposure that someone would have to bite, at this point.

Depth shouldn’t be a concern, if anything its becoming a problem. Assuming Pridie doesn’t make the majors, that puts him in Triple-A CF. F-Mart probably then gets RF, Ike gets first base, Bowman gets third base. Then you have to fit Chris Carter and Mike Hessman into LF, who are both very useful depth pieces if they don’t make the major league roster, not to mention Lucas Duda, who spent pretty much all year in Double-A and not only had a decent year but improved in the second half. Duda may have to repeat Double-A and play LF, though he doesn’t need to. He’ll have Nieuwenhuis in CF and most likely Carlos Guzman in RF, Zach Lutz at third base, and perhaps Stefan Welch at first. Those last three guys may not be very well known, but they’re the three biggest offensive sleepers in the organization above A-ball. They all had very good, under-the-radar years last year.

I call this a problem because many of these guys could be superior options to both Daniel Murphy and Mike Jacobs in the not-too-distant future, and a few are almost certainly already better than Jacobs.