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Opening Day is still a month away, so I'm not ready to make any serious projections yet. My goal is to spend the upcoming weeks looking at the players who are assured of going north with the Mets when camp breaks. The last week or so will be dedicated to the players fighting for the few open spaces on the roster (SP5, RP 6 and 7, one or two bench spots).

For now, here's a basic breakdown of the players on the 40-man roster, as well as the non-roster invitees, who are at Port St. Lucie ...

Even buried by 12" of snow doesn't quell the excitement of what is going on 2,800 miles south of this winter wonderland. Spring training is in full swing, everything should be right in the world but yet questions about the New York Mets abound.

Questions of whether the loss of Carlos Beltran for the first three months of the season is just a harbinger of more bad news a la last year's debacle of a season. Questions about a lineup that fall off the deep end of poor on base percentage ...

The Mets signed yet another catcher over the weekend, giving Rod Barajas a one-year deal and the inside track on the starter's job next season. This presumably spells the end of Josh Thole's candidacy for the position - a rare and welcome development from the traveling circus that has become the Mets' front office.

Three good months in Double-A does not make someone ready for the major leagues. Thole has promise - his stint in Venezuela this winter helps to confirm that - but he is ...

Pitchers and catchers only reported to Port St. Lucie yesterday, but the first mini-controversy of the 2010 Mets season has already been stirred up. Mets manager Jerry Manuel, pondering how to fill out the lineup card with Carlos Beltran on the shelf, indicated that he is toying with the idea of batting Jose Reyes third.

"I think Jose has the ability to probably hit anywhere in the lineup, anywhere from first to fifth -- maybe not fourth," Manuel said. "We toyed with ...

Amongst other things, the Mets and I have one major thing in common—we live in Queens, the thorough boro. The boro through which every other part of New York City feeds off of, the like the teet of mother kitten. I've often broken down New City thusly, Manhattan is the party girl, Brooklyn is the cool one, the Bronx is the protective older brother, Staten Island is the red headed step child and Queens, glorious Queens, is the Mother. Ii might not always live in New York City, but if I am you can ...