Jerry Manuel

The Mets can only hope that Carlos Beltran will carry his WBC performance into the regular season. The All-Star centerfielder batted .421 (8-for-19) in six games for Puerto, with a .632 slugging percentage and .542 OBP. He also had one......

Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran both returned this morning to Tradition Field, but it will be a few days before either one gets back into the lineup. Manager Jerry Manuel said that he could wait until Wednesday to get them......

Should we start with the good news? OK. First off, this doesn't count. None of it. So forget the fact that if you lined up Tim Redding's three home runs end-to-end-to-end, they would stretch from here to Disney World. Think......

Bobby Parnell took a huge step towards earning a spot in the Mets??? Opening Day bullpen on Saturday with 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief in a 9-3 win over the Tigers at Joker Marchant Stadium. Parnell needed just 27......

Mike Pelfrey called it a ???step in the right direction.??? It literally was. Pelfrey returned from a week off because of a strained left leg muscle and tossed four scoreless innings in the Mets??? 6-2 loss to the Nationals at......

Borrowed that headline from the back page of this morning's Newsday, which salutes the WBC heroics of David Wright. Not only did Wright save Team USA, in some ways, he actually saved baseball's international tournament, which would have been hurting......

Man, the Astros are terrible. Today's beatdown dropped them to 1-16-3, extending their winless streak to 19 games. Ugly, ugly, ugly -- even for spring training. First, here is today's boxscore. For the Mets, it was a happy recap, and......

-- Oliver Perez pitched three scoreless innings in his first start for the Mets since Feb. 26, but he still needs work to undo the faulty mechanics he developed during his time away at the WBC. Fortunately for the Mets,......

Jon Niese is officially out of the race for the fifth starter's job. Niese was a longshot anyway, and he was called into the manager's office this morning to be optioned to Triple-A Buffalo. "It was a surprise," said Niese,......

The Mets were giddy over MIke Pelfrey's dominant performance against the Astros on Thursday, but they could use a solid outing today from their projected No. 3 starter, Oliver Perez, who starts in Ft. Lauderdale against the Orioles. Perez was......

With the return of David Wright, J.J. Putz and Frankie Rodriguez, the Mets are whole again. K-Rod said he'd be ready to pitch tomorrow, and there's no timetable for Putz yet. But don't expect to see Wright in the lineup......

Today's lineup against the Braves is more surprising for the two players absent from it: Brian Schneider and Carlos Delgado. Schneider was expected to play after taking a couple of days to recover from a right calf strain, and he......