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Jordany Valdespin is one of the great enigmas of the New York Mets organization.

For the second consecutive spring, a former high school baseball standout from Coweta County has made his major league debut.

This one was back and forth all the way, but a Jordy Mercer 2 run single broke the deadlock in the 9th and condemned the Herd to the loss.

The Buffalo bats were quiet, registering only 2 hits on the evening. They didn't have a true starter in this one, instead opting for a bunch of relievers with spring training style outings.

Vinny Rottino, who came into the game with one home run on the season, provided three home runs, one a solo shot and two two-run blasts along with solo home runs by Valentino Pascucci, Jordany Valdespin, and Matt Tuiasosopo.

The 2012 MLB All-Star Game will be held in Kansas City , MO this year. In this game, at least one member of each team will be showcasing his all-star skills.

"They give us a different dimension than we had at the start of the year. We have more speed at the top of the order," Bisons manager Wally Backman said.

Jair Jurrjens speaks Dutch, English, Spanish, and Papiamentu. But there really are no words.

The post-Madoff, post-Minaya Mets were supposed to be different. Under the leadership of Sandy Alderson, whose forward thinking with the A's ultimately advanced the Q ratings of Billy Beane, Michael Lewis and Brad Pitt with "Moneyball," they were going to pave a new baseball operations path in Flushing.

Let's skip to the big news of the morning, that being Binghamton starter and Mets top prospect RHP Zack Wheeler being placed on the 7-day minor league DL with what the team is calling a 'right middle finger avulsion'. No word yet on how the avulsion was suffered, the severity of said avulsion or what an avulsion is.

Buffalo is getting short of actual prospects as more and more of them end up in Queens.