It's Time to Move Jose Reyes Back to Leadoff

This has nothing to do with the last two losses.  It has nothing to do with Jason Bay seeing more fastballs.  It has nothing to do with Angel Pagan.

You move Jose Reyes back to leadoff because he is a leadoff hitter, period.

The top of the Mets order is not a place for an experiment.

For his career, Jose Reyes is batting an even .300 when leading off a game.

In 2008, his last healthy season, he hit .340 when leading off a game and .327 when leading off an inning.

More importantly, he scored 43 runs when leading off a game in 2008.  That's over 1/4 of your season with a run in the first frame.  If you think that was a fluke, it's not.  He scored a first inning run 37 times in 2007.

We know that Reyes is not back to form yet after the injuries, but he was actually producing better as a leadoff hitter.  Since he's moved to the 3 hole Jose is hitting just .200 with a .243 OBP.

It's time to move him back, and it needs to happen tonight.

Alpha-Omega: A First

Until someone tells me otherwise, I am saying that the Mets led off and ended the game in a way that has never occurred before, and will probably never happen again.

They led off the game with an inside-the-park homerun off the bat of Angel Pagan, and closed by falling victim to a triple play.

Now we know that today's game had the first unassisted triple play to end a game, but I'd also wager that we've never had a game start with an inside-the-park HR and end on a triple play.

Wackiest game ever!

Anyone that can prove to me that this has occurred before in a major league game wins a Mets related prize (it's a good one!).