Internet sport betting on baseball is just around the corner and the New York Mets will start the season without one of their stars as centerfielder Carlos Beltran had knee surgery. The Mets are saying that Beltran will probably be out for most of April, if not longer. The Mets start the offshore sports betting baseball season on April 5th against Florida.
Internet sport betting has the Mets starting official workouts for pitchers and catches in just over a month. The Mets were really hurt by injuries last season and can’t afford the same types of problems this offshore sports betting season. Beltran is definitely a major player for New York. “The doctor said eight weeks, possibly, and a window to 12 weeks to resume baseball activities. With elite athletes, the timetable is sometimes shorter than the original prognosis,” Beltran’s agent, Scott Boras, said.
The Mets slipped to 70-92 and fourth place in the NL East last Internet sport betting baseball season. The Mets really didn’t want Beltran to have the surgery but he did it anyway without telling them. What repercussions there are to that decision remains to be seen. New York assistant general manager John Ricco said the Mets would have preferred to get another opinion before Beltran had surgery. “We were disappointed that the process wasn’t followed,” Ricco said.
Beltran is a major player for the Mets and he can impact Internet sport betting results. He missed 2.5 months of last season as Internet sport betting stats showed, but when he returned he led the team with a .325 batting average and .415 on-base percentage. He had 10 homers and 48 RBIs as offshore sports betting had it but missed a lot of time. Injuries are a major concern for the Mets in offshore sports betting with Beltran since he is in the sixth season of a seven-year, $119 million contract.
The Mets will have to piece together in Internet sport betting until Beltran returns. Getting Jason Bay in the middle of the lineup sure helps but now they have to count on Angel Pagan or someone else to play center field. Last season the Mets had to deal with injuries to Beltran, Jose Reyes, Johan Santana, Carlos Delgado, John Maine, Oliver Perez and J.J. Putz. It was really a major mess. Internet sport betting stats had the Mets with more injuries than any other team a year ago.