{"id":520486,"date":"2010-04-08T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:fantasy,article,yhoo-ept_sports_fantasy_experts-232965:1"},"modified":"2010-04-08T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:24:50","slug":"jose-reyes-expected-to-return-to-mets-lineup-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520486","title":{"rendered":"Jose Reyes expected to return to Mets lineup on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts__26\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts-402485021-1270741255.jpg?ymH048CDVAUi08d7\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts__26\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts-402485021-1270741255.jpg?ymH048CDVAUi08d7\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players?type=lastname&#038;first=1&#038;query=Jose+Reyes&#038;q=Jose+Reyes\">Jose Reyes<\/a> hasn&#8217;t appeared in a regular season game since May 20, 2009, but he&#8217;s eligible to return from the disabled list on Saturday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/08\/sports\/baseball\/08citifield.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">it sounds like he&#8217;ll rejoin the Mets immediately<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Barring any setbacks,&quot; added manager Jerry Manuel, as if you needed to hear it. Reyes is basically a walking setback. He&#8217;s spent the past week in extended spring training, doing all the things you drafted him to do: getting on base, stealing, scoring runs. His hamstrings are currently functional and his thyroid levels have returned to normal. Prepare to finally drag him off your fantasy roster&#8217;s DL. New York will face <span class=\"ysp-player\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/8074\/\">John Lannan<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/8074\/news\" class=\"ysp_playernote_icon\" id=\"ysp_playernote_mlb.p.8074\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> on Saturday and <span class=\"ysp-player\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/5734\/\">Livan Hernandez<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/5734\/news\" class=\"ysp_playernote_icon\" id=\"ysp_playernote_mlb.p.5734\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> on<br \/>\nSunday, so you can reasonably expect Reyes to make a weekend fantasy contribution.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this spring, Manuel had been toying with the idea of sliding Reyes down to the No. 3 spot in the batting order, but those plans changed when the shortstop was shelved in early March. When Reyes returns &mdash; if he returns, barring setbacks, etc. &mdash; you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/mets\/index.ssf\/2010\/03\/jerry_manuel_says_jose_reyes_w.html\">expect to see his name at the top of the Mets lineup card<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear your guess for Reyes&#8217; total number of 2010 at-bats in comments. I&#8217;ll get the bidding started at 591, but I&#8217;m bullish (and heavily invested). The closest guesser wins <span class=\"ysp-player\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/6023\/\">Alex Cora<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/6023\/news\" class=\"ysp_playernote_icon\" id=\"ysp_playernote_mlb.p.6023\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> &mdash; not a replica, but the actual Cora. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo via Getty Images&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Reyes hasn&#8217;t appeared in a regular season game since May 20, 2009, but he&#8217;s eligible to return from the disabled list on Saturday, and it sounds like he&#8217;ll rejoin the Mets immediately. &quot;Barring any setbacks,&quot; added manager Jerry Manuel, as if you needed to hear it. Reyes is basically a walking setback. He&#8217;s spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}