When news broke yesterday that Pedro Beato was bound for the disabled list, many Mets fans and members of the media came out with woe-is-mes, here-we-go-agains and talk that the team is irrevocably cursed.

Here’s the thing though: The Mets have actually been (knock wood) reasonably healthy this season. After the events of 2009, we’re so jaded by injuries that we seem to assume the Mets are the only team that has them. But every team has them.

By this list, in fact, there are eight other teams with four players on the Disabled List and ten teams with more than four players on (or bound for) the Disabled List.

It seems like the team’s new front office has a quick trigger for placing players on the shelf, which should be welcome after the Omar Minaya Era. Both Beato and Angel Pagan said they didn’t think they needed the full 15 days and suggested that at a different point in the season they might have remained with the club. Sandy Alderson likely does not want to saddle Terry Collins with a short roster, although… well, I’ll get to that in another post soon.