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Open Day comes around two weeks from tomorrow, and I’m sure we’re all dying to see the new Mets Hall of Fame or the reconfigured bullpens out at Citi Field – oh, and Jenrry Mejia if he makes the roster. But there’s already one area the Mets lead the league in: bloggers. More than any team in MLB, the Mets inspire an erudite, insanely committed crew of commentators online – yeah, even more than the cross-town team in the Bronx. So let’s go to the weekly highlights.
James Esotto over at Fonzie Forever has done a yeoman’s job of ranking major league prospects – really enjoyable compilation and a terrific conversation starter. It’s essentially a min-site all on its own, organized by position for easy comparison. And for you baseball supremacists, there’s even a special Yankee Top 50 section.
Greg Prince quotes Willie Mays about Mets camp – “there’s a feel in the air” – and credits the pair of corner outfielders, Jason Bay and Jeff Francoeur, with forming a new power core around David Wright. He also likes the kids, and wants to see them around Citi Field very soon.
Speaking of Citi – and we do love a stadium modifications story! – Shannon Shark points us to some changes to some of the entry gates out in Queens, with tiled naming tributes to Casey Stengel and Gil Hodges.
At the Real Dirty Mets Blog, the always entertaining rustyjr lights into Jerry Manuel’s save-my-job campaign to promote Jenrry Mejia (I’m on the fence, personally – more to come on this) by quoting a metal band he sometimes works for.
Per the ‘Ropolitans, ESPN is going hyperlocal with the new ESPNNewYork.com and Mets beat writer Adam Rubin is leaving the dead trees at the Daily News to cover the Metsies over there. And the term “baseball beat writer” continues to evolve.
There is a post in Mets blogland that’s actually entitled The Brilliance of Minaya. Yeah, hard to believe I know. But Tanya Mercado at CitiField of Dreams has a decent point: Minaya has held onto Fernando Martinez, Ike Davis, Ruben Tejada, Josh Thole et al – and the Mets have done a more-than-decent job of developing that talent.
Finally, Kranepool says he’s calmed down about the Mets’ super-thin rotation behind Johann Santana – I wish that made two of us.
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