The New York Mets dropped their first spring training game on Wednesday afternoon as they fell to teh Detroit Tigers by the score of 4-2.  It was one bad inning in the 7th inning that the Tigers scored all four of their runs.

Mike Pelfrey started the game for the Mets and pitched two scoreless innings, while Matt Wise, Brian Stokes, Pedro Feliciano and Jorge Sosa followed with a scoreless inning apiece.  Willie Collazo gave up all four runs and took the lose on the game.

As for the Mets offense, they quickly got out to a 2-0 lead in the game as they scored a run in the first and second innings.  In the first inning, Back-to-back singles and a walk in the opening inning set up Ramon Castro’s sacrifice fly to score Angel Pagan.  In the second inning, it was a Anderson Machado triple that plated Michael Abreu that put the Mets up 2-0.

Even though the Mets didn’t win today, you gotta like what they did.  Take that one bad inning out of the game and it could have easily been a Mets victory.  We will have to see how they rebound tomorrow as they face off against the St. Louis Cardinals.

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The New York Mets will be paying pitcher Oliver Perez more then what they wanted to after they lost his salary arbitration case.  The Mets had offered Perez $4.7 million dollars and Perez was asking for $6.5 million dollars which he will receive.

A little too much money for Perez if you ask me.  I don’t think Perez should have got that much money, more around the $5 million dollar mark would have been more acceptable I think.

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The New York Mets and outfielder Ryan Church have a signed a one year contract that will pay Church $2 million dollars.  That is a pretty nice raise for Church, who can get three more raises via salary arbitration before he is a free agent.

I like the signing, as I know there would have been atleast five other teams that would have signed him for that amount if not more.  Now Church just needs to stay healthy and help the Mets reach the post season.

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Johan Santana and the New York Mets used a couple extra hours to work out the details of a new six year contract that will pay Santana $137.5 million dollars.  The deal includes deferred money and a club option for 2014 with a $5.5 million buyout that could make the contract worth about $150 million over seven seasons. Depending on Santana’s performance, the option could become guaranteed.

Now the question everyone needs to ask, how will Santana perform with all the pressure he will have pitching in New York City?  Coming from Minnesota to New York is going to be a huge change for this all star pitcher.

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