The Mets have signed Terry Collins to a 2-year deal with a club option for 2013. He last managed in the majors in 1999 for the Los Angeles Angels. Collins has a career record of 444-434 (50.6%) in his six years as a major league manager. Collins is a tough guy who is nothing like the Mets last manager so it will be interesting to see how the players respond to him.

23-year old lefty swinging 1B Ike Davis finished 7th in the Rookie of the Year voting in the N.L. Davis played in 147 games for the Mets last season and he was 138 of 523 (.264 avg, .791 OPS) with 73 runs scored, 19 homers, 71 RBIs and 3 stolen bases. He whiffed 138 times but he also walked 72 times which is promising. Davis has a huge upside for the Mets and he will be the starting 1B for 2011 and down the road.

The Mets have likely lost 35-year old lefty starter/reliever Hisanori Takahashi as a clause in his contract stated that the Mets had to have already signed him or they couldn’t do so until at least May 15th, 2011. Takahashi isn’t going to wait a month into the season to return to the Mets so he’s as good as gone. Takahashi pitched in 53 games (12 starts) for the Mets as a rookie last season and he was 10-6 with 8 saves, a 3.61 ERA and a 1.30 WHIP. This just creates another hole on the pitching staff that new GM Sandy Alderson will have to fill.

The Mets have signed 31-year old righty swinging 1B/OF Val Pascucci to a minor league deal. Pascucci played in 72 games in AAA-ball for the Mets last year and he was 49 of 190 (.258 avg, .977 OPS) with 40 runs scored, 17 homers and 38 RBIs. His only major league experience came in 2004 with the Montreal Expos. He played in 32 games for the Expos that year and he was 11 of 62 (.177 avg, .588 OPS) with 6 runs scored, 2 homers, 6 RBIs and 1 stolen base. Pascucci will likely be stashed in AAA for another year by the Mets.

29-year old righty swinging catcher Omir Santos and 32-year old righty swinging 1B Mike Hessman have rejected minor league assignments from the Mets, thus becoming free agents. Santos played in 27 games in AA+AAA-ball last season for the Mets and he was only 15 of 94 (.160 avg, .474 OPS) with 7 runs scored, 1 homer and 10 RBIs. Santos played well for the Mets in his only year with the big league club in 2009 when he played in 96 games and he was 73 of 281 (.260 avg, .688 OPS) with 28 runs scored, 7 homers and 40 RBIs. He’ll likely hook on with another team over the winter but the Mets won’t miss him too much.

Mike Hessman played in 32 games for the Mets last season and he was 7 of 55 (.127 avg, .516 OPS) with 6 runs scored, 1 homer and 6 RBIs. He also played in 65 games in Rookie+AAA-ball last season and he was 70 of 252 (.278 avg, .925 OPS) with 44 runs scored, 18 homers and 58 RBIs. The Mets won’t miss him either.