Marty Noble for MLB.com writes about the Mets' benchwarmers in his last in a series of weekly stories on MLB.com examining each Major League club, position by position.

According to Noble, even with their talent, the Mets keep their bench warmer than most clubs, rarely deploying their replacements into action.

Noble writes:

Endy Chavez, Ramon Castro, David Newhan, Damion Easley, and Julio Franco are decent reserves to have, but according to Noble if history repeats itself, they won't get their uniforms too dirty in 2007.

In an article for the NY Times, Ben Shpigel reports on the recovery of Duaner Sanchez.

Shpigel writes:

Brian Johnson at The Daily Targum, Rutgers' newspaper appropriately writes about the man that is Bobby Valentine.

Johnson writes:

I did NOT know that...funny stuff.

Ken Davidoff from Newsday spoke with an optimistic Pedro Martinez in Port St. Lucie yesterday.

Martinez as quoted by Davidoff said:




Don't push it Pedro, noone wants to see you go out with a fizzle!