Hooray for everybody involved.

The funny thing is the Mets somehow brought in a player that makes Frenchy look like Nick Johnson, but at least he’s a middle infielder.

They also called up Lucas Duda and Jenrry Mejia today, so that means there’s more roster shuffling to come. I imagine the Luis Hernandez Era in Flushing is over (note: see update), but some pitcher’s got to go. Pat Misch is losing his spot in the rotation so he seems a likely candidate. Obviously it should be Oliver Perez, but that would be too much happy news in one day. Got to space it out so Twitter doesn’t erupt.

Hopefully Jerry Manuel gives Duda a chance to show what his ridiculous Triple-A performance was all about. Apparently he’s not much of an outfielder, but if he can put up the .880 OPS his Major League equivalency suggests, then he’s a massive improvement over Frenchy even if he’s Benny Agbayani out there. I assume Angel Pagan will play right field mostly the rest of the way with Duda and Chris Carter splitting time in left, but then guessing how Jerry Manuel is going to divvy up playing time is a fool’s errand.

As for Frenchy, well, I wish I could say he will be missed. Like I said earlier, the whole thing was just growing tiresome in every way. It wasn’t even fun to troll Francoeur fans anymore. Here’s hoping he comes to accept his role as a righty bench bat and fourth outfielder. And hey, maybe if he keeps working on his plate discipline every single offseason, it will click one of these years.

He does seem like a damn decent dude, for what it’s worth, and there’s obviously a reason the beat writers are so enamored of him. Of course, the whole “team guy” thing doesn’t really hold up when you start making play-me-or-trade-me demands despite being the worst regular right fielder in baseball. But I imagine I will find him much more entertaining to watch now that he’s not playing for the team I want to win.

UPDATE: I didn’t realize it’s September already. Good call by garik16 below — Luis Hernandez doesn’t have to go anywhere, nor do any pitchers.