This day got away from me quickly.

The MLB draft is tonight. You might remember that I don’t get too fired up about the event, mostly because I know next to nothing about the players involved and won’t have any idea if they’re good Major Leaguers for several years.

But hey, if the draft is your thing, enjoy it. Toby Hyde and Mike Diaz have done a ton to preview it at MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com and should be on top of news tonight, so follow along with them if you somehow don’t already.

Over his last 10 games, Lucas Duda has a .405/.512/.938 line for the Buffalo Bisons. In 104 Triple-A games, Duda can now boast a .306/.393/.591 line. That’s very good.

Duda has five home runs in his last ten games. The Mets have two. Last night, the Mets’ last healthy viable home-run hitter, Carlos Beltran, fouled a ball off the inside of his troublesome right leg and crumbled to the ground in pain. X-rays on the leg came back negative and the team says his recovery is day-to-day, but the Mets could have used another power hitter on the club even before that.

I’m repeating myself, I know. And thanks to the contributions of Jose Reyes, Justin Turner and Daniel Murphy near the top of the batting order, the Mets haven’t had a ton of trouble scoring runs of late.

But teams can always stand to score more, and it sure seems like adding Duda to the roster would be a good way to go about that.

Duda is 25, so it’s hard to argue that he needs to be in the Minors playing every day to continue developing — especially given his success at Triple-A over the past two seasons. Plus with injuries all over the place and Jason Bay looking lost, it shouldn’t be that hard for Terry Collins to find the lefty-hitting Duda semi-regular at-bats at first base, in left field and as the primary bench bat when he’s not starting.

Beyond that, giving Duda an opportunity to show what he can do or not do at the big-league level gives the Mets a chance to assess what they can expect from him moving forward. Though small samples abound, we’ve already seen signs that both Murphy and Turner could emerge as viable (and versatile) cost-controlled Major League contributors — valuable commodities on a team that has too often surrounded its star players with replacement-level dreck and a club that must be mulling whether to extend a massive and potentially financially limiting contract to its superstar shortstop.

Continuing to give chances to 33-year-old Willie Harris teaches you nothing unless you haven’t learned from the first 2597 Major League plate appearances that Harris isn’t much of a hitter.

David Wright is a bright guy, but in this case he doesn’t seem to get it. He looks at you quizzically when told that being traded away from the Mets – where the ballpark works against him, ownership and upper management view him as less than a superstar, and the team is facing more losing seasons for the near future – would actually be the best thing to ever happen to him.

– Bill Madden, N.Y. Daily News.

Or maybe — maybe! — David Wright, grown-ass man, has a better sense of what he wants and what’s best for him than some guy who doesn’t really know him at all.

And I appreciate the use of the second-person here, because it makes it sound like David Wright looks at me quizzically when I tell him that being traded away from the Mets would be the best thing to ever happen to him, which is precisely the response I’d expect from Wright if I were to tell him that. I bet he’d think, “who the hell is this guy?” But because he’s super polite he’d just give me a curious look and not really say anything.

Not that it really matters one way or the other, but I was looking over the Mets’ team stats today and got to wondering what people thought:

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I think that the meeting yesterday was great. I liked it. It was different than what we used to have in the past. But that’s him. He has passion, he has energy, he’s going to pick and talk the way he feels about the team, about the players. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I think sometimes you need a meeting like that to wake everyone up.

– Carlos Beltran.

why do you need a meeting like that to wakeup? you should be motovaited by being a big league player.beltran is a joke.

– Glen Volz.

Ah, yes. Sometimes I get so caught up in ironically blaming Carlos Beltran for stuff that I lose sight of the weird and twisted ways in which people unironically blame Carlos Beltran for stuff.

I happened to be standing in the media scrum around Beltran when he said what he did about the team meeting, and I actually did come away from it thinking it sounded like Beltran legitimately likes Terry Collins and his methods and wasn’t just paying lip service to the reporter’s question. But a reporter did ask Beltran what he thought of the team meeting, and Beltran answered the question professionally. Imagine the fallout if Beltran had been curt or suggested the team didn’t need the meeting for motivation.

(On an unrelated note, Beltran addressed the media while wearing one of the most amazing shirts I’ve ever seen in my life. I would have snapped a picture if I were myself less professional. It was an incredibly loud short-sleeved button-down featuring various shades of turquoise, orange, yellow, and I think maybe some pink. From a distance it looked like a Hawaiian pattern, but it was something more complex than that, vaguely, I don’t know, Aztec? There were flowers on there, but also like bones and suns and all sorts of incongruous lines and shapes. It might have been a Magic Eye shirt. Type of thing you need to be Carlos Beltran to pull off.)

Anyway, the Post recently switched to using Facebook comments on its news stories, meaning commenters are no longer shielded by anonymity. So we know that this particular Beltran-blamer is a cabinet maker named Glen Volz who believes that Beltran was not, in fact, motivated on Wednesday when he went 2-for-4 with a double, and presumably also not motivated in the 52 games before that, in which he posted an .875 OPS despite the bone-on-bone condition that everyone thought would sideline him a lot more often than it has.

But I guess kudos to you for your conviction, Glen Volz.