Nieuwenhuis Makes Major League Debut: Mets Lineup V. Braves April 7, 2012

Today in Flushing Kirk Nieuenhaus will make his Major League debut playing CF with the Mets. Nieuwenhuis has been described by Mets manager Terry Collins as being like Jim Edmunds in his aggressive approach to playing CF.

Nieuwenhuis will wear Gregg Jefferies old #9 and bat 8th. The stellar hitting Ruben Tejada will be moved to the lead-off spot.

RA Dickey will get his first start of 2012 as he opposes Jair Jurrjens, who has had the Mets number in his relatively short career.

In other news, the Mets are planning on an 11:30 press conference to announce the contract extension of Jon Niese. Niese will sign a 5 year $25.5M that will wrap him up through his arbitration years. This seems like a good signing for the Mets.

Today's Mets line-up (1:10 SNY):

1. Tejada-SS
2. Murphy-2B
3. Wright-3B
4. Davis-1B
5. Bay-LF
6. Duda-RF
7. Thole-C
8. Nieuwenhuis-CF
9. Dickey-RHP.

Sources: Adam Rubin, Dave Lennon, Baseball Reference

Mets to call up Kirk Nieuwenhuis

The guy most want to see play CF is probably on his way in from Buffalo today. Kirk Nieuwenhuis will be the Mets replacement of Pagan, I mean Torres who hurt his callf yesterday running down a triple in CF in the 7th yesterday. This is according to Mr Rubin.

Kirk is someone the scouts think isnt too durable but he is one of those guys who doesnt mind running through walls. He might platoon a little with Scott Hairston who does hit lefties a little bit better then Kirk.  He spent a majority of last season on DL due to a shoulder surgery. 

Mets have to be the first team to have a starter on the DL so far this year. Torres will be out at least 2 weeks.  In a year that not is much expected from this team, it will be nice to see the young guys get a chance to play early instead of mop up work in September.

Mets win 1-0 : Santana goes 5..Torres most likely to DL

The Mets just won there opening day game 1-0 on 5 good innings from Santana. The Mets bullpen pitched the last 4 and David Wright drove in the lone run .  Mets played in front of a record crownd of 42,080.  Murphy,Wright and Thole had 2 hits

Of course Health wise they prolly lost Andres Torres to the DL for the same injury he had during the spring while trying to run down a triple. He was taken out in and was replaced by Scott Hairston.   

Mets are in first!  good start guys!   


Adam Rubin

Mets Honor Kid On Opening Day

The Mets had a nice tribute to their fallen catcher, Gary Carter. Before today's game, Carter's family unveiled a tribute to Carter on the outfield wall at Citi Field.

Carter will be forever remembered. Nice job by the Mets organization.

Mets opening day is here! : The Kid.

Well the sun is up on the east coast and in 4.5 hours at Citi Field the Mets will have first pitch at opening day with Johan on the mound. He of course will be on a pitch count. Useless info alert! The Mets have the best winning percentage in the MLB on opening day.  (32-18, .640) in MLB history.
Will the Mets be able to hold there own against the mighty east with the way the other teams are stacked this year? Doubt it but lets hope we get some production out of looks like he is dead Jason Bay and Johan and the rest of the Mets stay healthy!

The Mets will honor the kid , Gary Carter, before the game who lost his battle to cancer this spring. The Mets will also have some of there hall of famers there see below.

Here is a pic from Mr Newsday Dave Lennon

Ralph on the SNY Set with Bobby & Carton TheBitterBill

Link to pics from Carter Ceremony

Opening Day Tixs still available for Citi Field

The Mets still have a few thousand tickets to sell for opening day since its not a sell out for Thursday . On Stub Hub there are over 500 tickets for sale starting at 59.95 . If you head over to Mets.com you can secure seats as well. 

The Mets added the Party deck and those seats start at $100.00 but are only available for single games for the first homestand. They include food and drinks. After the first homestand they need to be bought at a group level.   

One of these days we will make it to opening day but wewill wait until the little peanut gets a little older.  

No workout before opening day

The Mets with new dimensions in Citi Field for 2012 will have no work out before opening day.  The Mets spend there last day of spring playing the Yankees in Tampa at Noon today then fly home for opening day tomorrow against the Bravos.

Mets filled there schedule so none of the outfielders will be abe to get any time playing balls off the walls with the new dimensions at Citi Field. Smart way to start the year especially when yuo have a new Center fielder and Lucas Duda playing in right.  The Mets could have a work out after the first game on Friday which is a off day.