Everyone’s down after the news that Carlos Beltran had surgery on his knee and will likely miss Opening Day, and probably most of April.\u00a0 The one thing we were all hoping for in 2010 is that we could go into the season healthy, with a full team on the field, and start feeling good about the Mets again; Positive about the Mets again.\u00a0 This doesn’t help that cause.<\/p>\n
I’m going to ignore most of the off-field drama for now.\u00a0 There is a still a lot that we don’t know, about who knew what, what the doctors said, how much the Mets knew or didn’t know, and when Beltran started feeling pain.\u00a0 We know he told Kevin Burkhardt in November that he felt no pain.\u00a0 His knees started acting up again and he had surgery.\u00a0 We’ll go from there.<\/p>\n
We haven’t gotten a solid figure on recover time yet.\u00a0 The common figure seems to be around 12 weeks to baseball activity, whatever that means.\u00a0 Is that another month past the 12 weeks to be on the field with the Mets?\u00a0 It’s roughly 12 weeks to Opening Day, so we’re basically talking about most or all of April.\u00a0 If the prognosis is closer to 8-12 weeks, maybe he can be back sooner.\u00a0 Maybe it’s not as serious as all that.\u00a0 I don’t think we’ll really know until we see how Beltran feels in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The events of 2009 have given us no reason to believe anything the Mets, or anyone, says about recovery time and return to action.\u00a0 I don’t see how we can do anything else right now.\u00a0 Beltran is irreplaceable and if he’s out for longer than April, things could get murky.\u00a0 Angel Pagan has played very well with the Mets, and while he’s no Beltran, the team can be successful with him in CF temporarily.\u00a0 Fernando Martinez could become a factor too, if he shows something amazing in Spring Training.\u00a0 Of all the possible contigency plans, that has to be the most exciting one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For now, I’m going to stay upbeat and cross my fingers about all things going well from here on out, and Beltran being on the field by May 1st.\u00a0 A-Rod missed April for the Yankees last year.\u00a0 Championships aren’t won in April.\u00a0 The Mets need to get another solid pitcher, and it looks like they should find another solid lefty OF bat for the bench.\u00a0 I have good feelings on Mike Pelfrey and John Maine based on some stuff I’ve heard from them, and if both of them pitch well in 2010 it would actually overcome the lost offense from Beltran to Pagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everyone’s down after the news that Carlos Beltran had surgery on his knee and will likely miss Opening Day, and probably most of April.\u00a0 The one thing we were all hoping for in 2010 is that we could go into the season healthy, with a full team on the field, and start feeling good about … <\/p>\n