The Mets are one of several teams helping Major League Baseball understand more about pitchers’ epidemic of elbow injuries, Mike Vorkunov of NJ.com writes. The Mets, along with four other teams, are having the pitchers in their 2014 draft class participate in a study by agreement with MLB and the MLBPA, along with the American Sports Medicine Institute. Vorkunov reports that the study will examine pitchers’ biomechanics, anatomy and flexibility to try to identify players who might be at risk. All 30 teams will have access to the results. “We as an industry probably should have taken the initiative long ago before this became such an epidemic,” says Mets GM Sandy Alderson. “But I’m happy we’re pursuing it now. That, I think, will help us with the next generation of baseball pitchers.” The problem is surely one that all clubs are curious about, although the Mets, who have lost Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler to Tommy John surgery in recent years, likely are especially interested. Here’s more from around the Majors.
- Carlos Beltran is becoming disliked by fans of both the Mets and the Yankees, Joel Sherman of the New York Post writes. It’s questionable whether Mets fans have reasonable grounds to dislike Beltran — as Sherman notes, Beltran played well with the Mets and landed them Wheeler. But many do. And the first year-plus of Beltran’s three-year, $45MM contract with the Yankees has been awful so far, particularly given his defensive limitations. Beltran, who turned 38 yesterday, is hitting .173/.241/.288 so far this season.
- 30-year-old 1B/OF Danny Dorn finally made it to the big leagues after 939 minor-league games after the Diamondbacks promoted him Tuesday, and he’s thrilled to be there, writes MLB.com’s Barry M. Bloom. “I can call myself a Major Leaguer,” says Dorn. “It’s been great. I just feel blessed and thankful for the opportunity.” Dorn has been climbing uphill his entire career — he was a 32nd-round draft pick all the way back in 2006, and although he hit well throughout the minors, he spent parts of seven seasons at Triple-A.
As a Met fan I will never understand why Beltran would be disliked in NY by other Met fans. Don’t bring up Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS, that’s old hat and one at bat. He had a very solid run in NY including three great years.
We also would have never been in game 7 without him. In our 10 playoff games he hit 3 home runs with a 156 wRC+. Plus he probably deserved the MVP that year. Or I should say he and Pujols were definitely the top 2. Howard winning it was a joke. He played great for us in 07 and 08 as well, although not quite as well as 06 which is probably his best year of his career.
Any Mets fan who dislikes Beltran because of that strike out isn’t a real fan honestly.
He isn’t really… that’s fiction created by sportswriters who have nothing better to do than to cause unheralded drama.
I liked Carlos Beltran. He was pretty good when healthy.
Most of the Yankee fans I knew hated the Beltran signing, especially when it was heard he’d be playing right field.
I just want to point out that most of the Mets fans who dislike Beltran do it tongue in cheek. It’s become a long running joke.
I’m probably one of the few Yankee fans who Doesn’t “dislike” Beltran. The signing, well that’s a different story. If you want my honest opinion, I think the Yankees only signed him to make up for offense for losing Cano. Obviously he has provided next to nothing offensively but hindsight is 20/20, considering he did very well in St. Louis.
“hindsight is 20/20” It was pretty obvious that at 45M, it was a big overpay, there’s no hindsight there. For example, even if Headley doesn’t live up expectations, no one can say it was a bad contract. But 45M for a 37yo, was there really someone who was about to pay him 44M?
I’m talking about his offense dropping. He had 5 straight seasons of a 127 OPS+
as a met fan I loved the beltran signing I’ll admit to being frustrated with his injury problem in blue and orange but I never hated him. I did tell a Yankee fan friend of mine the Yankee contract was stupid as at this point i doubted he could stay on the field but I never hated him
Gardner, Ellsbury, Young/Heathcott
I think Beltran got a bum rap from Mets fans, who are fixated on a single moment and set aside all the rest of the things he did. As a Yankee fan I thought the signing was unwise because of its length. I’m really surprised by the sharpness of his decline. Beltran does try, he’s just seems completely shot. You do wonder what the heck happened to him. Yankees should probably do a better job on the medicals.
He hasn’t had one. I have no idea where that comes from. He wasn’t even booed.
The strikeout isn’t what got Beltran a bad name for himself in Queens. Yeah, we’ll never forget it or forgive it for him. It’s the fact that when he signed with the Yankees he came out with “I was never treated right”. Why didn’t he speak up before? Also the injuries were an annoyance because of the contract he was given.
There’s nothing to forgive for the K, he didn’t do that on purpose. He struck out… it happens. The Yankee stuff does get to me.
Who’s the other teams?
I’m not sure he’s actually disliked by most Mets fans. The Game 7 incident is used as a rib, yes. But look back at when they introduced him at the All-Star game at Citi Field
Drew… don’t let facts get in the way of a reporters fictional story! 🙂
Beltran being hated by Mets fans is a creation of the NY media. Most Met
fans don’t hate Beltran, although some are cold toward him NOT due to
2006, but rather because he never liked or valued us. It’s human
nature.
Personally, I HATE when sportswriters bring up that 3rd strike and pretend the fan base is obsessed with it. We are a relatively well versed group of fans and it’s condescending to simplify our connection to a player into one at-bat. He was really good as a Met, if not very engaging. I don’t know ANY Met fans personally who hate Carlos Beltran.