Random Saturday postgame notes
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.
