Instead, Ruben Tejada started at second base for the fifth straight game. Castillo isn’t a starting player for the first time in his career and it isn’t sitting well. He told the Daily News that he and his agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, will try to get him into a situation where he can play every day again.
“I think we will talk to them about that,” Castillo said. “I need to be in a different kind of situation. I don’t know what they want to do. I want an opportunity to play, and if it is here, then I am happy. If it is somewhere else, then that’s what it is.”
I get it, of course: Baseball players are programmed to think they’re awesome and want to play everyday. And it’s probably hard for Castillo to look out at Tejada, hitting like a pitcher, and see how the 20-year-old gives the Mets a better chance of winning ballgames, which the Mets keep insisting he does.
But Castillo now joins Jeff Francoeur and Ollie Perez on the list of Mets willing to speak out for their right to continue playing regularly in the Major Leagues while making millions of dollars for their sub-replacement level production.
And I love Castillo’s assertion that he’ll talk to Omar Minaya about finding him someplace else to play everyday. Ahhh, Luis? You think, ahh, you think Omar hasn’t tried that already?
Tedquarters 
Yeah I’m kind of amazed, he seems to legitimately have no idea the mets have been trying to move him for years and absolutely no one wants him. I kind of think they should post news stories in him and Frenchy’s lockers about them clearing waivers or trying to trade them for players who were later dfa’d by their teams and getting turned down.
That being said as sad as it is Castillo’s probably right. There’s really absolutely no reason Tejada should be in the majors or playing over Castillo. He wasn’t even hitting AAA pitching. I don’t really see how being horribly over matched is going to help his development, especially when his biggest problem seems to be the fact even his line drives can’t get out of the infield.
And we’re likely decimating his trade value if he had much to begin with, plus letting him rack up service time.
Anything that keeps Luis Castillo off the field (and upset) is fine by me.
Really? Luis may not be close to being an All Star, but he plays hard even when hurt. Be nice, Erik