The DL

So, Duaner Sanchez is back. I'm not excited. Major shoulder surgeries, lost velocity, plus Carlos Muniz gets sent down. Sanchez was between 87-91mph with his fastball, and relied heavily on his changeup around 80mph. The changeup had tons of good sinking action, but the fastball looked very hittable. Sanchez threw only one breaking pitch last night, a curveball. So, he brought back the same repertoire he had in '06, just not as good(his fastball used to top out at 95mph). Which is what I thought would happen, you can't expect a guy to come back from multiple shoulder injuries and be the same. Metropolitan fans and their GM need to calm down on the Duaner Sanchez expectations.

Then they can all calm down about Orlando Hernandez, Pedro Martinez, and Moises Alou. There is always so much talk about what the Mets are going to have, and what they're going to do, just as soon as they get healthy. Hernandez should be asked to just leave the organization and be forgotten about. Then Pedro needs to have his hand held on his walk out to the mound and should be used college style as Friday night starter. He'll need six days of rest between starts. Moises will need to be a part-time player if/when he gets back. I just hate the talk about these guys. They aren't reliable, and never will be again. Yes, they are good when they are healthy. When Alou plays he should be hitting cleanup on this team. But it's completely unrealistic to think the Mets can rely on any of these players at any point in the season.

*Pelfrey looked good again. He's throwing a real heavy ball so far and the slider looked deadly. He battled through Ryan Zimmerman and Nick Johnson with the bases loaded in the third inning last night. Pelfrey got Zimmerman to pop up on one pitch. Then he K'd Johnson by throwing him five straight fastballs, the last two of which were swung at and missed.