Going, Going, Gone?

Over this whole rollercoaster year for the Mets on the field, there has been a lot of speculation of selling off the field. At the start of the year, Jose Reyes was the topic of these trade rumors so to speak. Next, came the nasty Fred Wilpon Comments on Jose Reyes and David Wright. Then, some people thought that we might trade the long-time face-of-the-franchise David Wright in order to keep Jose. When that died down, We traded Francisco Rodriguez to the Brewers for two minor league prospects over the All-star break. Then, the latest edition of this saga is that we have put up white flags because of that K-rod trade, SO that meant that th next person probably to go is Carlos Beltran, reports say that the Red Sox, Pirates, and Giants are interested if we put him on the market. Back to Jose: We have started secret negotiations with Jose in order to get a deal done that will let him stay in New york.

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What If...?

Life is full of "What Ifs?". Sometime we ask ourselves "what if" this and "what if" that when in reality, it does not do a thing to think about those things. But in the next few segments of this post I'm gonna reflect on the "what ifs" of the Mets season so far through 90 games.
What If David Wright hadn't dove to make that tag on Carlos Lee on April 19, we could have lost that game, but we would not have lost the face of the franchise for 40+ games. What If Ike Davis hadn't gone in to catch that pop-up and let David catch it and did not sprain his ankle. What If Jose Reyes didn't run so hard down the 1st base line (though i can't blame him) and strained his hamstring, he would have 123 hits on the year, but we would have won more games. If you put all of these What Ifs together, it all comes out to one conclusion, a contending baseball team. The Mets have 5 key players out right now (David Wright, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Johan Santana, Chris Young) and if we had all these player, we could be contending in our division. But Terry Collins has pulled all of his young guns out of his pocket and has pushed our team over .500.
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No Reyes? No Problem.

Since Jose Reyes strained his hamstring on Saturday afternoon, The Mets have been playing all there cards right, as they have been 4-0 without him in the lineup. Update: the New York Post states that the Mets will hold secret negotiations with Jose Reyes to get a deal done and for him to get a new contract. Jose Is likely to go on the DL. If there was a worse time for him to go on the DL, i wanna know about it because the Mets face a stretch of 7 All-Star Pitchers in a row starting Thursday at Los Angeles. The pitchers are 7/7: Clayton Kershaw 7/8: Ryan Vogelsong 7/9: Tim Lincecum 7/10: Matt Cain then the Big 3 in Citi Field.
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Jose Report 7-6-11

MVP?: What is Greatness in Sports? Is it hitting 50 Home Runs in a year, Scoring 25,000 points in your career, or shattering tons of records? In my Opinion, Greatness is helping your team win games every time out. Thats what Jose Reyes has done all year for the Mets. Reyes has racked up ridiculous numbers as he leads the N.L in Batting Average (.354), Hits (124), Triples (15) and is second in Stolen Bases (30). The question is though, could Reyes beat out big bat guys like Prince Fielder and Joey Votto, or Triple Crown Threat guys like Matt Kemp for the N.L MVP award?

Hammy Whammy: Jose Reyes was looking invincible before Saturday's game Vs the Yankees, but then in the 1st Inning, he showed signs that he was just human, as he suffered a grade 1 Hamstring strain in the 1st inning. The Mets do not want to push Reyes to get back into the Lineup, Terry said earlier this week that it was stupid to have Reyes for one day or night then lose him for 3 weeks.

Comeback Kid: Going into the last day of All-Star voting, Jose Reyes was down by more then 221,000 votes going into the day, right behind Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzski. The Final vote count was that Reyes won by 800,000. This means that Reyes would have to AT LEAST gotten 1 million votes in the FINAL day of Voting to beat out Tulo for the Starting Shortstop position.

Reyes= Greatest?: Alex Rodriguez, usually not very sympathetic to players on his crosstown Rival, said on Friday night, right before the first game of the Subway Series, that Jose Reyes is the greatest player in baseball right now. Thats Right. A-Rod said this. He said he was better than himself, Derek Jeter, Mark Teixera, Curtis Granderson, Matt Kemp, Adrian Gonzalez, Albert Pujols, Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay. etc. Was A-Rod trying to play mind games with Reyes, or really being serious. Leave your Answers down below.

all stats come from ESPN.com

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Mid-Season Awards

Here are the Mid- season awards on the Mets so far this year.
MVP: Jose Reyes. The clear cut choice for this award as Reyes has been tearing it up all year and has been electrifying to the team.
Silver Slugger: Carlos Beltran. Beltran leads the team in Home Runs and RBI's so far this year even after having microfracture surgery last year.
Cy Young: Dillion Gee. Dillion leads the team in Wins and ERA as he started out the year 7-0.
Rookie Of the Year: Justin Turner. JT won Rookie of the Month in May and has shown us that he wants that 2nd basemen's job.
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