According to El Nuevo Dia, via MLBTR, the Mets have invited Carlos Beltran to meet with Sandy Alderson. I don’t know why, I don’t have any inside information and I don’t know if or when they’ll actually meet. But if they do, I hope Alderson says something like this:
“Hey, Carlos: I know you might feel like you haven’t gotten an entirely fair shake here — from the team, the fans and the media. And I have no idea what happened last year with the miscommunication around your surgery, and frankly, I don’t care.
I know that you are a great player, and for us to compete in 2011 we’re going to need you healthy, happy and productive. I know it’s not much, but I will take every opportunity I can to stress your importance to this club.
And we feel you would be especially valuable to us if you could move to right field this season. I trust you’ve seen the way your friend Angel Pagan covers ground in center, and we think his presence gives us the luxury of moving you to the corner to take a little bit of strain off your knees.”
And then they share a bro-hug or something, and Beltran buys Alderson a beer for being such a straight shooter, and they all live happily ever after.
Tedquarters 
Sandy Alderson, that’s just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
+1
Moving to right field hurts your feelings? Well, why don’t we chug on over to mamby-pamby land you jack wagon?
too funny!!!
As I see it, Beltran should be the CF going into spring training contingent that he has rehabilitated such that he is the Beltran of old. If he has permanently lost that speed, then you move him to RF.
I have a question about the knee, though. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard him say that he doesn’t have a problem running, the pain in the knee comes with starting and stopping, and especially pulling up short, which it seems like there’s quite a lot of in right field. If it is the case that putting on the brakes is the bigger issue, then if he still has his speed, you want him in center.
I’m pretty sure that starting and stopping is pretty important in every position. I don’t know why RF would create more opportunities for this than CF. Please explain.
And if he says, “No thanks. I am the centerfielder”?
In that case hopefully something like “I’m the GM; I wasn’t asking”.
the fevered dreams of a deluded SABR mind