All systems almost go

So now everyone’s healthy and Mike Pelfrey’s awesome and we all feel pretty silly for that insufferable fretting.

The former is the real good news: It looks like the Mets will start the season with (knocking wood) only D.J. Carrasco and Pedro Beato on the disabled list, and neither of those guys was likely to make the team if he was healthy anyway. After all that — all that! REMEMBER ALL THAT!? — the Mets are going to start the season with D.J. Carrasco and Pedro Beato on the DL. Some curse.

Guys will get hurt again, of course. Probably soon. The random waves of injuries ebb and flood, and it just so happens that the Mets are opening the season at low tide for injuries. If we’re going to try not to freak out over overblown reports that 19 guys are nicked up, we shouldn’t celebrate too much when the Mets are all healthy at the same time.

And it’s sort of the same deal for Pelfrey. As Toby Hyde likes to say, Pelf be Pelfing. It’s certainly nice that he finished the Grapefruit League season on a good note since it helps stave off the nonsense for a while, but if I’m arguing against putting stock in the negative returns from Spring Training then I’d be foolish to endorse the positive ones. The velocity and yesterday’s spate of swings-and-misses seem like good signs, but yesterday he was facing a team full of backups and Minor Leaguers.

Which is to say: Wait… I don’t know what that’s to say. Opening Day is tomorrow at least, and there’ll be real baseball to celebrate and tiny samples to isolate.

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