Mets’ Murphy Will Miss Opener With a Knee Injury
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Mets’ Murphy Will Miss Opener With a Knee InjuryMets’ Murphy Will Miss Opener With a Knee InjuryWith only a handful of days remaining before the regular season#x, the Mets were on the verge of concluding spring training without having sustained a single on-field injury.Positive PlateBut then one faulty base-running play in the middle of a meaningless game on Tuesday brought back all the bad memories of 2009, and the Mets find themselves without their starting first baseman.
Daniel Murphy ran himself into an out between third and home in Tuesday’s 9-4 loss to St. Louis and sprained his knee. He did not think the injury would be bad until he woke up Wednesday morning. Then he had a magnetic resonance imaging test that revealed a Grade 1 sprain. Murphy was told he could be out two to six weeks.“Bad timing,” he said. “I’d been here two months and I was starting to feel good at the plate. We’ve been working hard as a group, and I wanted to break with my team.”Last season, the Mets were tormented by the twin plagues of bad base running and endless injuries, and they spent time in spring training trying to correct both. There were extra base-running drills and an organizational campaign called Prevention & Recovery, designed to keep players healthy. Until the bottom of the fifth inning Tuesday, both strategies had yielded positive results.Murphy, one of the few Mets to avoid injuries last season, #xhad been anointed the starting first baseman, although Ike Davis, the Mets’ top position prospect,Positive Plateis expected to push Murphy aside by 2011. But for now, Davis will head to Class AAA Buffalo while the veteran Mike Jacobs takes over at first.With the Mets also deciding on Wednesday to delay Jose Reyes’s regular-season debut, it means that their opening day lineup will include at least three backup players — Jacobs, Alex Cora and either Angel Pagan or Gary Matthews Jr.In discussing the Murphy situation with reporters, General Manager Omar Minaya did not wait to be asked about the 23-year-old Davis, who had a standout spring, before dismissing the possibility of his starting the season in Flushing.“Right now, our plan is to let Ike Davis develop in the minor leagues,Grow lights,” Minaya said.Jacobs had been a strong candidate to be a left-handed power hitter off the bench for the Mets. Now that he will probably be starting for a while, it opens up roster possibilities for Chris Carter#x, who on Wednesday hit his fourth home run of the spring, this one off Florida’s Josh Johnson,Positive Platewho will face the Mets again Monday in the season opener at Citi Field.相关的主题文章：
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