The Mets seem to be piling up injuries faster than the law of statistics would suggest is expected. Of course we can write-off the older players as expected, including Valentin, Alou, and Duque. Now add to that from the end of last year Pedro, Sanchez, and Delgado (wrist at start of season, broken hand at end of season). But what's troubling is the younger players also injured: Beltran just had arthroscopic surgery on both his knees, Maine is now indicating he had an injured hip all year and might need surgery, and Humber has already had Tommy John surgery.
Omar's in a very bad place this offseason. Practically no one the Mets need is available as free agent, and we don't exactly have a lot of young cheap prospects to trade. The best bet may be a three-way trade between the Mets, a team with a player we want, and a team who would take one of our older vets that they think could add to their chances next year (e.g. a Delgado, Alou, ...) All I know is we need Santana and nothing less. I think grab torii as well.
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I'll wait to hear on the hip thing. Hopefully it's not serious, but any injury in trunk or the legs is scary. When you can't push with your body, the arm gets hurt eventually.
Humber's surgery doesn't bother me. TJ's are a dime a dozen nowadays, and most of the young players come back throwing harder after the surgery.
Is Hunter willing to change positions? We're not moving Beltran, so he'd have to want to switch, since the ball's in his court...
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