Already reeling from the bad news that Daniel Murphy is out 2-6 weeks with a knee injury, Jose Reyes won’t be ready for Opening Day and their starting rotation is in shambles, the Mets were dealt another blow yesterday when closer Francisco Rodriguez abruptly left the team after he got news that a family member had been hospitalized following a car accident in Caracas, Venezuela.
– Andy Martino and Christian Red, New York Daily News.
Sing it with me now: “One of these things doesn’t belong here. One of these things isn’t the same.”
Look: I’m in no position and I’m of no disposition to ever take the moral high ground. Plus I realize that the Daily News editor probably decided the paper was going to run a back-page headline “K-ROD CRISIS” and so needed to fill several inches with the story about K-Rod’s brother’s auto accident, which even the Post only had two paragraphs about.
But I mean, really? “Bad news, Mets fans: First, Mike Pelfrey allows a few homers in a Grapefruit League game, and now K-Rod’s brother is clinging to life.” I’m sorry, that doesn’t follow.
I promise this doesn’t suck nearly as much for the Mets or their fans as it does for K-Rod and his family, and especially the brother. And it sucks way, way, way, way, way worse than the Mets’ starting rotation, which sucks.
Tedquarters 
On top of that I still dont think ts fair to say the Mets rotation is in ‘shambles’ at this point, considering no one has thrown any pitch of meaning yet and the projected 5 starters are still healthy and are still projected to be the Mets 5 starters.
I understand that some guys have not looked goood this SPRING TRAINING but can we at least wait until the rotation takes a couple turns through something other than what amounts to practices before calling the rotation in ‘shambles’?
Sensationalism sells.
Of course during the season is where it really counts, but how they progress during ST counts. Especially when it is at the end of ST and the original 4 are no were close to being OK.
And the last 2 starts of ST is when a team does find out who is looking good or bad.
And of course we will see what’s up in the season, but evaluated the pitchers at this point does make sense.