Mets Camp: Black Friday Has Arrived

As expected, Sandy Alderson and JP Ricciardi made eight cuts today before the Mets took the field. Many, if not all of those demoted, were expected.

Those who were sent down are:

P - Dillon Gee
P - Taylor Tankersley
P - Ryota Igarashi
P - Boof Bonser
OF - Jason Pirdie
IF - Russ Adams
C - Dusty Ryan
C - Raul Chavez

As we scribed earlier, Luis Castillo is in the Mets lineup today, so if any move is made, it will be after the game. The fact that he is playing makes it doubtful to me that Luis is going anywhere. In fact, he might very well have played himself into the starting 2B role - more by default since Murphy, Emaus, and Turner have shown very little. Hernandez might have a punchers chance of becoming the starting 2B.

No matter what the Mets might say, I still have a difficult time believing the Mets will eat the $6M left on Castillo's contract, let alone the $12M on Perez's contract.

Thanks to Adam Rubin with his quick and frequent updates.