Today it was announced that manager Terry Collins is moving the slumping Curtis Granderson from the cleanup spot and replacing him with...who else? Daniel Murphy:
Terry Collins is considering moving Curtis Granderson out of the cleanup spot, the manager said after Saturday’s game.I've been saying for years that besides David Wright, Daniel Murphy is the best hitter the Mets have--a consistent .280 to .300 guy who could easily score around 80 to 100 runs for you and drive in around 70 every year all the while playing a decent 2nd base...if the Mets just left him alone. And just looking at Murphy's career stats, he's more then proven this. But this is the Mets organization, a woeful program operated by Fred Wilpon that hasn't won it all in 28 years and here's yet another reason why. Instead of leaving Murphy (a homegrown talent who always plays hard regardless of the situation) be, the inept Mets management continue to show a willingness to screw with his head. Whether it's constantly putting Murphy on the trading block, incessantly trying him out at different positions, getting into his head when he goes through a periodical slump or in this case, panicking and moving a guy with a lifetime total of 39 home runs to the cleanup spot all because your new multimillion dollar CF is off to a bad start...it's always Murphy who gets the short end of the stick. Will they ever learn to just leave Daniel Murphy alone? He's earned that right.
Update 10:30 a.m.: Granderson will bat second on Sunday. Daniel Murphy will bat cleanup.
Granderson, who signed a four-year, $60 million deal this past winter, went 0-for-5 earlier in the night. He left six runners on base.
