I keep forgetting that Jose Reyes will ever play again. Sweet.
Will Carroll at Baseball Prospects passes along a fascinating video.
I love this. I absolutely love this. The media creates a bugaboo: Tony Bernazard is the source of all the Mets’ problems. Then the media gets Tony Bernazard (rightfully) fired, the Mets don’t magically improve, and now the media wonders if the Mets would be better off if they still had Tony Bernazard.
Sam Page examines the metrics surrounding Jeff Francoeur’s defense. Sam’s a lot more optimistic than I am, but I think mostly the research speaks to how we don’t have anything like a perfect defensive metric yet.
Tedquarters 
I didn’t agree with the gist of Harper’s article (missing out on Lackey and Figgins is a good thing in my opinion), but I thought Harper is right about this:
“The problem is their plan seemed to be built around the thinking that patience would yield bargains in a soft market, and they were caught off-guard when teams spent more aggressively than anticipated.”
The Mets should have quickly moved to lock up one of Harden, Penny, or Wolf, as all three of them were relatively cheap and better options than Lackey and his AJ Burnett demands.
On Harden and Penny I agree, Wolf I’m not so sure.