
Starling Marte’s health a Mets spring training win with outfielder open to DH at-bats
NY Post
TAMPA — If there was extra scrutiny on Starling Marte among the Mets players who had a slow spring training, it was because of the ailments that derailed him last season.
But Marte arrived in camp feeling as if the questions about his health had been answered.
He departed Monday saying nothing had changed in that regard.
The Mets consider that a win.
“I continue to think with Starling the most important thing is health,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said a day earlier. “And what we’ve seen is that he’s a healthy player.”
On this day Marte was plunked in the helmet by a Clay Holmes breaking ball in the fifth inning and walked off in good spirits.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












