Jose Reyes won’t win it, he hasn’t played enough games. However, many voters will put Jose Reyes, deservedly, on their top 10 list when they vote. Where do you think he finishes overall?
NL MVP vs AL Cy Young, Vote Reyes, DePodesta Recap
Couple of noteworthy things to look at today. The first is the Mets are playing a day game today at 1:05. The potential National League MVP, Jose Reyes, will leadoff the game against the potential American League Cy Young, Justin Verlander. Should be a fun day. The Mets won the first game on a blowout, the second on a slugfest, could the third be a pitcher’s duel? Is Mike Pelfrey up for it?
Secondly today we need to get #votereyes trending on Twitter and also to vote for Reyes as many times as we can. It would be a travesty if Reyes was not the starting shortstop for the National League. While you’re voting, throw in some votes for Carlos Beltran too. On the American League side Asdrubal Cabrera deserves your vote, especially as he’s currently being led by a player having a poor season that’s on the disabled list in Derek Jeter. Mike Francesa thinks the All-Star Game should be Jeter’s personal 3000 hit celebration, which is even more fodder. Also, Alex Avila deserves your vote for AL Catcher.
Thirdly, last night a bunch of bloggers talked with Paul DePodesta and Michael Baron of Metsblog kindly put up a transcript. I’m sure there are couple of other breakdowns out there too.
Let’s Keep It Rolling Rolling Rolling..
Well that was fun wasn’t it? After a ridiculous amount of games without a grand slam, the Mets hit two in one trip through the lineup last night. Jose Reyes had ANOTHER 4-hit game, his second in as many days and he’s reached based nine of his last 10 appearances. Bay had one of those grand slams, Dickey gave the team length and the Mets climbed above .500 baseball on the season. They remain five games out of a playoff spot, but there is a lot of baseball yet to be played. Jose Reyes has as many triples as 17 other major league clubs and still hasn’t gone two consecutive games without reaching base.
What’s not to love about this team right now? The Mets schedule is still tough in the immediate future, but they have a chance to put .500 behind them for good. The way they’re playing, I believe they can do that no matter who’s in the other dugout. Being able to add David Wright to this mix is going to be a nice bonus as well.
Whereever this team is going, the ride sure is fun!