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Surprise, surprise. Hanley Ramirez is still pouting over move to 3B.
Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen was asked Tuesday whether Hanley Ramirez is “absolutely 100 percent on board” with moving to third base this season to accommodate shortstop Jose Reyes. As always, in his response, Guillen did not measure his words (see the video at the Miami Herald‘s website):
“No,” Guillen said. “No, Hanley is not 100 percent on board. Not yet. The last time I talked to him, no. But I don’t expect him to be. I expect him to be 100 percent on board with this move when we play St. Louis (on Opening Night). Right now, just let it be, man. Let it be.”
“This is Hanley’s team,” the new Miami skipper concluded. “Those guys they brought in from the outside is to help him.”
In other words, “he’s still be a whiny little b**** about it, but we are going to stroke his ego and lie to him saying he is ‘our guy’ and all these other true professionals we brought in are here merely to support him, bla bla bla bla bla.”
Look, I understand Hanley has a ton of potential. We have seen big years from him in the past, but let’s cut to the chase. This is a dude who has had three “great years” (2007-2009), a couple of “good years” (2006 & 2010) and a God-awful year…which happened to be last year. Add it all up and his most recent three year split looks like (great year/good year/God awful year).
Not exactly an inspiring trend.
Ozzie, take the little kid gloves off. Get in the punk’s face and challenge his professionalism. Nobody did when he was in Boston’s system, despite their reservations about his make up, they just shipped him off and passed the buck.
His time in Florida has been marked with half-ass attempts to rein him in and we have seen the results. Bad attitude, lack of leadership, half-assed play and and all around lack of maturity and professionalism.
Since the arrival of younger players like LoMo and Mike Stanton this clown has ducked his responsibility to lead this team and instead chosen to be one of the most self-absorbed assclowns in all of professional sports.
You have to end it now Mr. Guillen or all those dollars your owner spent will have been for naught and the handful of actual Marlin’s fans (hey, like it or not y’all are a bunch of bandwagon jumpers who are as rare as unicorns when the team is floundering) will endure another 4th place finish.
Source: Drew Silva @ Hardball Talk
Jose Reyes: Out again with a hamstring injury, Mets’ fragile shortstop’s valuation is up in the air
Remember wayyyy back when New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon fired a shot in May, saying there is no way shortstop Jose Reyes would get Carl Crawford money — seven years, $142 million — as a free agent next offseason?
“He’s had everything wrong with him. He won’t get it,” Wilpon said in a magazine story in The New Yorker intended to generate positive publicity, but instead backfired amid fan backlash.
Then two months ago, the owner looked like he would eat his words, as Reyes began posting MVP-caliber numbers with no hint of the leg injuries that had tormented him early in his career.
Simply put, the man looked like a force of nature. One that was getting ready to cash in a long-term, nine figure deal with a major league team in the coming off-season.
But that was then & this is now. Two trips to the disabled list for left hamstring strains later, will Wilpon be proven correct? And will Reyes’ injuries actually help the Mets retain him by suppressing outside bidding for his services?
We’ll probably know in December, when Reyes holds a news conference at Citi Field or slips on a different uniform elsewhere,but odds are this will come into play when the soon-to-be free agent is shopping himself around to teams around the league.
“This isn’t our first choice, for something to happen,” agent Peter Greenberg said. “We’re disappointed, obviously, as I know Jose is. We’re trying to look on the bright side. It’s not serious. Like Jose says, it’s part of the game, the injuries. Hopefully he’ll come back in two weeks and have six weeks to finish up strong and healthy and we’ll see where we’re at.”
Said GM Sandy Alderson: “This is definitely a setback for him and for us, but as with all players, you’ve got to accept certain aspects of their performance, their makeup, their physical characteristics and evaluate it accordingly.”
Even with injuries, do not dismiss one renegade owner/GM tandem throwing the type of money at Reyes that could blow a Mets offer — say five years — out of the water. Manager Terry Collins noted pregame there is enough uncertainty about Reyes’ future with the ballclub beyond this season that he is using the next two or three weeks to evaluate whether call-up Ruben Tejada is ready to take over the position in 2012, if required.
“I think it will have a minor impact,” a front-office executive from another club predicted about Reyes’ injuries. “Teams get crazy in free agency. And the tools, upside, positional scarcity still remain.”
“It only takes one team. And it’s hard to make the case that Carl Crawford as a left fielder had more upside than Reyes as a shortstop, especially if he wins a batting title.”
Former Mets GM Jim Duquette largely agreed.
“Boy, the way he was playing I thought there would be that team out there,” Duquette said about a Crawford-type offer. “I think this does make a team pause on that front. But, then again, I look at what he’s capable of and the position and the lack of productivity at shortstop and say, ‘Well, somebody might just do it.’ I can’t rule it out, although it can’t help but impact it a little bit.”
Reyes, for his part, was unfazed by the impact on looming bidding for his services. Alderson said he would continue to honor Reyes and Greenberg’s request not to engage in contract negotiations during the season.
“I don’t worry about that,” Reyes said. “I don’t want to get an injury. Something happens. That can happen to anybody. You run and you pull a hamstring. That’s part of the game. I don’t worry about what people think. The only thing I worry about is to try to get healthy again and try to finish the season strong.”
Greenberg added that Reyes’ hamstring injury is not that severe. The images from Reyes’ MRI will be sent to Dr. Daniel Cooper, the Dallas Cowboys‘ team physician. Cooper performed the 2009 surgery on Reyes to repair a hamstring tendon tear.
“He said it doesn’t feel as bad as the last one,” Greenberg said about his client. “I think [the disabled list] is just being prudent based on where the team is and based on their needs for bodies and everything. Otherwise, if it was a different situation, maybe he would have gone day-to-day. He’s in good spirits.”
File this under “could have seen that one coming”. Jose Reyes injures hamstring (again).
Color me surprised. Or not.
From WFAN in New York comes word that Mets shortstop Jose Reyes had to be removed from Sunday’s series finale against the Braves after complaining of tightness in his left hamstring.
Yes, the same hamstring that sent him to the disabled list for over two weeks in July (but not the hamstring that cost him large parts of two season in recent years, so I guess there is that silver lining)
Willie Harris entered the game to cover second base with Justin Turner sliding over to short.
Reyes is likely to rest for the next couple of days no matter the severity of the renewed discomfort, and he might need a couple more weeks off if Mets trainers deduce that he suffered another strain.
The 28-year-old impending free agent is batting .336/.377/.507 with five home runs, 16 triples, 34 stolen bases and 80 runs scored through 98 games this season. He was 0-for-1 before making his early exit Sunday.
