Jose Reyes said David Wright knows him better than anyone else on the team. Wright saw Reyes wince while throwing, and called Jerry Manuel out to remove Reyes from the game. According to Reyes, Wright stressed how important it was to the team for Reyes to be fully healthy for the second half. Reyes maintains that he didn’t further injure his strained oblique by playing today or this week, but said that Wright expressed concern that he might.
The good news is that David Wright is around and vigilant. The bad news is that Reyes is visibly hurt but somehow it’s up to the Mets’ third baseman to keep him out of games.
Jerry Manuel said that Reyes would be sent to the All-Star Game “with a note,” which really made it sound like it’d be pinned to Jose’s shirt by the kindergarten teacher. Adam Rubin has since Tweeted that Reyes will be out of the All-Star Game entirely, but I didn’t hear that part.
Angel Pagan has a “Retire 21” sticker in his locker. He also has an .832 OPS on the season. Jeff Francoeur is at .694.
Ruben Tejada changed lockers and is now in the spot where Ryota Igarashi used to be. Tejada’s old locker is mostly empty except a few jerseys, a couple of gloves, and a label on top that says “BELTRAN 15.” This makes me unreasonably excited. I’m pretty sure it’s the same locker Beltran had last year, for whatever it’s worth.
I wonder if Igarashi’s translator went with him to St. Lucie. I assume he did.
Tedquarters 
At first I was nervous Reyes would have some restrained animosity towards Wright for “calling him out,” so to speak with his “hidden” pain.
You hit the nail on the head though…the fact that Wright is the one watching Reyes the closest on this team is ridiculous. He’s taking “leader” to a whole new level..on-field producer, team-meeting organization, medical analyst.
As much as Wright & Reyes are the “cornerstones” of the organization…it says something about the difference in maturity level between the two that Wright halts the game, while Reyes tries to lie his way out of his injury. I’m not trying to knock Reyes…I like 100% Jose more than anyone, but that’s the point. He’s not 100%. The Mets have enough issues to deal with among the healthy members of its corp….the last anyone should have to do is watch Reyes’ every breath…apparently like D.Wright was doing.
I don’t care how many times Francoeur’s undeniable media charm attempts to pull a positive out of his “flat-out sucking”…but Jerry Manuel is going to have to dig deep for any reasonable explanations to start Frenchy over Pagan.
I’m not saying you are one of these fans, but I imagine half the problem is when Reyes gets injured half the fan base/MSM calls him an injury prone baby.
I’m sorry, but this is bulls***. Players want to be on the field. All of their baseball lives, everything in their training and in the larger culture is telling them to man-up, play through pain, gut it out. A player like Jose does just that, he’s “lying”. A player like Beltran decides it’s not prudent to continue playing through pain, he’s only thinking about his next big contract. It’s bulls***, all of it.
It was Jerry’s job to decide if Jose should be allowed to play. He didn’t do his job until prodded by a player. Put the responsibility where it belongs.
Let’s hope the second half of the season brings out healthy players who can make up for these last few games and put the Mets in contention for post-season play. It’s much more fun to watching the Mets win than it is to watch them lose. Kudos to David Wright for protecting Jose Reyes, who is my favorite Met.
I’m more troubled by the fact that the team’s medical professionals once again failed to properly identify and deal with an injury. Seriously, if the 3rd baseman can tell a guy is hurting and needs to sit down, what the heck does this team pay their medical staff for?!!!