Mets Game Chatter – 7/21/12

You hated him in relief but you'll love him as a starter! Miguel Batista gets the starting nod in today's 1:10 matchup against the Dodgers. Enter your comments in the text box above where it says "Powered by Quick Chat" and the various emoticons. Right above that text box is a small rectangle where you [...]

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Jeurys Familia may prove to be a second-half star

Readers of my Met’s Minors column may have grown accustomed to me ignoring players who might be struggling in a given week.  For this reason you have heard a lot about: Matt Harvey, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler, Travis Taijeron and Aderlin Rodriguez, but less about others.  Well I tend to go by the doctrine of, [...]

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Can the Mets count on Johan Santana in the second half?

For once, the Mets’ beleaguered bullpen cannot be blamed for another tough, gut-wrenching defeat, when on Friday night the Mets fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-6. The Mets have now dropped eight out of their last ten. Ironically, it was the Mets’ bullpen that kept the team in Friday’s affair, as four Mets’ relievers [...]

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