The Mets officially placed Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez, Duaner Sanchez and Ramon Castro on the DL, Castro’s being retro’ed to the 21st and Sanchez the 27th. As expected, Castro’s roster spot will go to Casanova.

In other roster moves, Stokes was DFA’ed. Stokes has stated previously that he would not accept a minor league assignment, and is presumble packing up his ball, headed home as you read this.

All the leftovers are headed to the minors, just in case we need the talents of Rincon or Nelson Figueroa in the future.

As with the previous announcements, there is nothing earth shattering here. Our resident Psychic, Metsgal, in fact predicted all these moves about four months ago and sealed them in an envelope. The only shame is that Rincon would have allowed us to have both a guy named Casanova, and a guy named after a ABBA song on the roster at once. Regardless, its safe to assume Duq will work on pitching in pain with his old leg kick delivery and once ready, he’ll replace Pelf. Castro will be given time to heal up, I don’t see them rushing him, then will reclaim his spot from Casanova. I think an eye will be kept on Fig, who’ll probably pitch his ass off in AAA in hopes that if Pelf falters and Duq heals slowly that he might be given a chance to fullfill his dream of pitching at Shea.