Well here’s something vaguely interesting:

The Mets’ most experienced right fielder, by far, will start in center field on Opening Day. Angel Pagan has played 538 1/3 innings in right field over 90 Major League games, and a handful more in the Minors.

After Pagan, the Mets’ next most experienced right fielder is Willie Harris, who never played the position in the Minors but has totaled 230 1/3 innings over 45 Major League games at the spot. After that, there’s a huge dropoff.

Baseball-reference.com doesn’t list Minor League innings totals in positions, so I’ve listed the outfielders in Mets camp by professional games played — Major and Minor League — in right. Keep in mind that Harris only has 24 starts at the position, but he did play a bunch of outfield in the Minors (apparently) before people started keeping track of which outfield spots guys were playing, so he may have more time out there. Hence the asterisk. Same goes for Scott Hairston, though both players were primarily infielders in their Minor League days.

I’ve excluded Pagan and Jason Bay, since they are starting in the other outfield positions. Bay, incidentally, has one Major League game in right. His Minor League days also aren’t tracked by outfield positions, but it’s probably worth noting that he played in one game at second base.

Not really sure if this matters at all, just thought it, like I said, vaguely interesting. Citi Field’s right field is a reasonably demanding spot, and the Mets will most likely be trotting someone out there without much experience.

A lot of the talk suggests Scott Hairston will be the man if Beltran has to start the season on the DL. And though Hairston has proven a good defensive outfielder in center and left, he has not played much in right at all.