Sullivan, who wore\u00a0Nos. 31 and 18<\/strong>\u00a0with the Rockies, appears to present some competition forJeremy Reed<\/strong>, whom the Mets acquired in the Putz-Heilman deal and who also just settled on a new contract. The Mets in fact held the very same kind of competition in 2006 when Chavez beat out\u00a0Tike Redman<\/strong>\u00a0in a duel of would-be reserve outfielders with modest major-league contracts. May the best scrubeenie win.<\/p>\n Well, they have a shot anyway. The opening for a reserve outfielder seems to have gotten more competitive with word Tuesday that the Mets had inked light-hitting flycatcher\u00a0Cory Sullivan,\u00a0most recently of Colorado. Sullivan was more or less a washout as a starter with the Rockies but as I’ve argued here before I generally support attempts … Continue reading “But Know This, America: They Will Be Mets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[414,408,415,16],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corey-sullivan","tag-jeremy-reed","tag-omir-santos","tag-tom-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/34.gif\")
The Mets also revealed some addition spring training invitees including\u00a0Tom Martin<\/a>, who was a barely-hanging-on veteran lefty the last time the Mets last had him — in 2001 (he wore\u00a0No. 34<\/a>\u00a0then).Other invitees include fallen lefty pitcher\u00a0Casey Fossum,<\/strong>\u00a0formerly of Arizona, and catcher\u00a0Omir Santos,<\/strong>\u00a0known as a defensive specialist, who came up through the Yankees’ system but whose only big-league taste came last season with Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"