Mets and Roster Construction Part II

 

 

Update: Apparently, the Mets have promoted Andy Green. Shoot me now.

As most of you know, David Wright hit the DL yesterday with a concussion after being hit by a pitch in the head by the Giant’s Matt Cain Sunday. Everyone else around the blosphere has offered their two cents on the morality issue here- Ill just say I agree with my friend Jack Flynn’s take at his blog. I’m in no mood for a fluff peice today.

Instead, I’ll continue to look Omar a and co.’s incompotence when it comes to roster management following an injury.

Fernando Tatis’s line right now is .250/.311/.412. Even if you account for his xBABIP (.282), his AVG./OBP. improves marginally:  .264/.312.  For a 34 year-old those numbers are maybe- just maybe- tolerable for a bench player. To play everyday for at least two weeks on a team going nowhere is inexcusable.

Nck Evans has hit .255/.301/.405 in 153 career at-bats in the big leagues. It’s safe to safe the Daniel Murphy experiment at first base has failed; his future with the team right now is as a utility infielder. Thus,  if the Mets decide to promote Evans, Murphy can accumulate some reps. at third for the time being, while Evans plays first until Wright returns. Make no mistake, Ike Davis is a better prospect than Evans, but given this is Davis’s first full season in pro-ball, the Mets will wisely let him finish the season in AA.

If the Mets still have faith in Murphy, the case can be made for promoting Shawn Bowman. Bowman, 24, has been battling major back issues since 2005, more or less sapping all his playing time entering this year. In fact, he just returned Friday after suffering a lower back strain in the beginning of July. He has held his own in 328 plate appearances with Binghamton this year, hitting .292/.341/.445, and has always been known for his slick glove (people used to say in 2004 he would move Wright to first).

Bowman was drafted in the 12th round out of high school in 2002. He has got to be the only kid drafted that late, played in the same organizatin seven years, and not made an appearance in the big leagues.