Not a Good Three Games

In the last three games the Mets are 0-3 and have scored 1.7 runs per game. In that time they've hit .220 as a club with zero home runs, and they've backed up their pitchers with six errors in the field including five in one game.

In other words, it's not the happiest of times for the Metsies. As for us here at Y2K, well, we've been on a little work-induced vacation the past couple of weeks. Between my job and GMAT prep I haven't had time to bring the posts like you're accustomed to.

The truth is there's more where that came from in the offing. Tomorrow I leave for my first big trip since 2006, going to Barcelona, Ibiza, and Paris. While I'm there I'll try to find time to write a few posts, but you never want to make any promises about these sorts of things. All of which is to say that things may be slow through the end of next week, but that we'll be back in force once the calendar turns to June.

In the meantime, here are a few quick hits on our boys:

1. Generally speaking I'm as big a fan of Jerry Manuel as they come, but a few things are starting to eat at me. For one thing, I don't think he's handling the Daniel Murphy situation ass well as he could. Murphy has the potential to be a big piece of this team for the foreseeable future; it's not a definite, but the potential's there, and it's on Manuel to realize that potential.

Earlier this year, playing Murphy made a ton of sense. But between his struggles there, Delgado's injury and Delgado's contract expiration, why not put Murphy at first and see what he can do?

There's word that's the plan, and if the Mets are giving Murphy work at first in non-game situations so that he's prepared whenever he makes the move, that I support. I just wish there were a little more clarity on the topic.

2. My other main Manuel criticism is that the Mets have proven themselves to be a bad fundamentals team. They get thrown out by country miles taking extra bases, they miss bases on their way home, they make stupid errors in the field.

I don't know that there's anything Manuel ever could have said or done to have ensured that Church would have touched third on his way home the other night, but the mental miscue wasn't an isolated incident.

If bullpen woes were the bugaboo last year, errors, both mental and physical, are proving the team's weak underbelly this year. They've given away too many games already, and as we've learned the past two seasons, you never get those games back.

That all said, I hate to talk smack about Jerry, so that's enough.

3. David Wright. Wow. Dude's hitting .361 and, thanks to suddenly becoming the most clutch hitter on the planet, is on pace for 116 RBIs. I hate to talk like this but it would be nice if he could start parking some balls, but so long as he keeps driving in runs I suppose there's little difference.

- A.F.O.M.G.