Jose Reyes now has a slight hamstring tear, in addition to his strained calf. While this is crushing news to the Mets hopes for 2009, it gets worse. JJ Putz has “sharp” pain in his elbow whenever he tries to throw his splitter or two seam fastball and will be flown to NY to decide whether he will need surgery as well.
Update 1:33 Putz will have surgery on his elbow and will miss 8-10 weeks.
While Reyes’ tear is small, a tear in a hamstring is a tear in a hamstring, and you have to figure he’ll miss at least a month, if not more. We all knew Putz was hurt, as this was not the guy who saved 40 games just two years ago for the M’s.
Call me a pessimist, but with the injuries to Reyes and Delgado, two of the Mets best hitters, I just feel it will be tough to keep up with that Juggernaut of a llineup that the Phillies, and now even the Braves, can throw out there on any given day. In my opinion the team would be better served in building toward 2010 instead of trading away the farm system for say a Jermaine Dye, Carlos Lee, or a Matt Holliday. Holliday could always be signed during the offseason anyway, and would not cost any prospects.
Here’s to hoping that I’m wrong and somehow this team pulls something out of it’s you know what. At this point, I’m just not sure if there IS anything that can salvage what we’ve lost already.
Pete Lappin (3)
