While You Slept, The New York Mets Benched Their Over Rated Shortstop Jose Reyes

Is Jose Reyes good? Of course he is. Is he over rated? Of course he is. Jose is someone with God given talent who chooses to get by on a smile and speed rather than learning how to play. He gets by on being “young” even though he’s in his seventh season.

Some time between cadillac-ing it in Wednesday’s game and the first pitch last night Jose developed a (cough) calf injury so he sat last night.

As I typed this, I googled some stats and when I typed “Jose Reyes” into Google, discovered that John Harper thinks similarly, and since I need to get ready for work I will pass it off to the Daily News.

The myth the Mets have tried to sell everyone the last couple of years is that Jose Reyes is still young, that he’ll stop making bonehead plays when he matures as a major leaguer. Only it’s faulty logic any way you want to dissect it.

For one thing, in baseball terms Reyes is not young at all anymore. He’ll be 26 in a few weeks, he’s been in the major leagues for seven seasons, and it’s not as if he came to the game late. He grew up playing it in the Dominican Republic, and, organized or not, that’s a scenario scouts say has produced a lot of savvy ballplayers.

Read more: “Mets at crossroads with erratic shortstop Jose Reyes” –http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/05/14/2009-05-14_mets_at_crossroads_with_jose_reyes.html#ixzz0FZQPAkQw&A