Hey it must be any day of the week today, because there's New York Mets injury news to report on. I know, I'm shocked too.First baseman Carlos Delgado was in the process of working his way back from surgery to remove a bone spur in his right hip and to mend a torn labrum when he suffered a setback down in Florida. Delgado has strained an oblique and it's going to be at least two weeks before he can even resume baseball activities, cutting the chance he'll return to the Mets this season to just about nil.
"The one thing you could say is this hip is feeling better, so it's unfortunate that this popped up," said Mets assistant general manager John Ricco, the ranking executive with the team in Arizona. "The season is getting shorter. We're going to run out of days at some point."
Ricco said it was unclear when Delgado sustained his latest injury, but he began feeling pain after traveling to Port St. Lucie to continue his rehab Saturday. Delgado returned to New York on Tuesday, and was examined by team physician Struan Coleman on Wednesday at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Of course this also means that Delgado's tenure in New York may be over as well. His contract is up after this season, and depending on what direction the Mets would like to move in for 2010, we can't be sure they're going to be interested in signing a 37-year-old first baseman.If they would like to bring him back next season, though, they'd probably be better served to just let him take his time getting healthy and not bring him back at all in 2009. It's not like the Mets are going to make up the 11 games they currently trail the Phillies by, so there's no point to it.
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Sorry to say, but I am sure there are those Mets fans who believe in "you gotta believe" is not in the cards this year. You know the players gone, you know the stats, you know we are loyal to a AAA farm team playing in a major league park. But, you gotta believe there is ANOTHER NYC team and we gotta wear OUR pinstripes and turn the other cheek and say we believe in next year...oh wait, it has been next year for 3 years; but whose counting. I still believe, however.
sorry that he is hurt.. but it doesent really matter who is injured on that team.. they cant seem to win healthy or not..
I guarantee the Mets would have been on the top if it wasn't for all the injuries. The Mets seem like a whole different team with out Reyes, Delgado, Beltran and now Wright. I still believe in the team. Its been an unfortunate year for them but I will never stop believing in them. LETS! GO! METS!