When the Mets were forced to take out an injured Paul LoDuca in the 8th was an example in roster mismanagement. With the DFA of C Sandy Alomar Friday to make room for Moises Alou they left themselves open to what happened tonight. With Castro’s insertion into the game for LoDuca, it left Randolph with no position players. The reason: The unnecessary recall of Mike Pelfrey to make one start in a DH. Pelfrey’s addition to the 25 man roster gave the Mets a ridiculous number of 13 pitchers. The second start should have gone to Aaron Sele, who has not pitched since July 19-now 9 days.

UPDATE: Now with the Mets down a run, they will not have anyone to hit in the # 9 spot. Knight speculates it will be Tom Glavine, unless Beltran can hit.

UPDATE: Thats what happned. And as it’s LoDuca’s hammy, the Mets hopefully have already been on the phone making sure there’s a back-up catcher here for tomorrow afternoon’s game. I wonder if they can revoke the DFA of Alomar. Just nuts!

UPDATE: I found the WFAN feed and realize they still have the same little music jingles they used back in my NY Days. Cool. Tony Paige is beating up on Randolph for his seventh inning where he used both Anderson and Castro for the LoDuca injury. Randolph’s thinking was sound with Anderson’s numbers against Ray King being 3 hits in 5 trips with a 2B and an HR. Sometimes you make the right moves and they don’t work out. I maintain the problem was the Mets did not need to bring up Pelfrey to make the start in Beltran. Its silly to leave yourself with 13 pitchers 8 position players  and only 4 bench players. And one of those you could use, making it 3. Tonight’s 25 man roster essentially left him with a two pinch hitters and an emergency back-up catcher. Orlando Hernandez had to PR and Tom Glavine had to PH.

The Mets just must be totally preoccupied with not having enough pitchers. Their recall of Pelfrey to make one start indicates they are obsessed with him. They probably promised he woud be brought on this date and they didn’t want to back off on that.