When it comes time to assemble the 2009 Mets season wrap, let's hope James Cameron is available. We know a shipwrecked team when we see one.

Johan Santana(notes) became the most recent of the star-crossed New Yorkers on Monday - he's got a sore elbow and won't make his scheduled Tuesday turn. Teammates told Marty Noble of MLB.com that Santana might need to have surgery on the elbow. Even if the Mets decide that Santana can get better with rest alone, there's no good reason to expose him to any more work this season. The plug was pulled on New York's playoff chances a long time back.

Things aren't much better for the Mets on the offensive side of the ball, where Carlos Beltran(notes), Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado(notes) remain in limbo. Jeff Francoeur(notes), one of the team's more productive hitters of late, missed Monday's game with a bad thumb and an MRI revealed a tear. Jerry Manuel is optimistically terming Francoeur as day-to-day.

• Brad Penny(notes) has mercifully been removed

I'm not going to get all misty eyed over the unassisted triple play that ended Sunday's Mets-Phillies game. Eric Bruntlett didn't do anything heroic, the Mets didn't do anything wrong. It was just one of those weird plays that come up once every blue moon. Big deal. Watch it a second time, put it in context, move on. We've got bigger fish to fry, and we're not renaming this post "Four Unassisted" for one day.

The Colorado outfield hits a fork in the road – all because of a knife in the kitchen. Get Carlos Gonzalez to the bench, and maybe Seth Smith can help you for the next week. [Denver Post]

Sometimes the internet flow of the summer has a way of turning a potential NFL sleeper into an overhyped property. John Hansen blogs about buzz gone haywire. [Fantasy Guru]

Heads up if you've fallen for the Chargers fantasy defense – the key to the whole enchilada says he won't be right until October. We'll leave the lights off for you. [San Diego Union-Tribune]

Jason Campbell(notes) is having

Get your retro uniforms on and let's settle in for a themeless collection of Friday bullets. I could almost hear Mel Allen calling out This Week in Baseball as I assembled Friday night's batch of notes.

• Marc Rzepczynski has received a trial by fire in the rough-and-tumble AL East (six of his nine starts have come in division) but he's managed to keep his head about him and throw the ball well most of the time (3.65 ERA, no outing with more than four runs). The Halos managed just three hits and one run against the gangly lefty Friday night, while Rzepczynski struck out six (video here). "He was as billed," said an impressed Mike Scioscia. "You see a guy with good life on his fastball, good movement, who gets his slider under swings. He moved the ball around and threw a lot of strikes." The rook gets a home date with Tampa next week, an opponent he's fared well against (12 IP, 2 ER).

• Jonathan Sanchez(notes) allowed just one unearned run in five strong Colorado innings (eight K) and

Smart owners, bad choices – here are seven common mistakes I see good owners make on draft night.

Overrating handcuffs. I'm not saying there's never a time to consider a handcuff, but the conditions have to be right. If you're in a league with short benches, don't bother. If the starter isn't a big-ticket item, don't waste your time with insurance. If it's not 100 percent clear who the backup is, I'm not wasting a spot.

Also keep in mind that when you commit to a backfield handcuff, your maximum player payoff is one slot (it's a little like bunting in baseball – when you play for one run, that's the most you'll ever get). If you take backs from two different teams, you might luck out and wind up with two valuable players.

The overly strict draft plan. This is just an excuse to do thinking and shifting on game night. You have to be ready for audibles, surprise values. I'm not saying a pre-game plan is a bad idea, but sketch it in pencil – don't commit to it in ink.

Misuse of bench

I'm not one of those fantasy owners who dreams of a superstar-laden roster from A to Z. For my money the true joy of the game is picking players up, getting production out of unexpected sources, massaging the roster, making a shrewd pickup here or a lucky grab there. No-name production is more fun than brand-name production.

And with that in mind, let's head to Arlington. Julio Borbon(notes), come on down.

The speedy Borbon has only spent 10 games with the Rangers this year but they've been packed with mad production: 16-for-33 at the dish, with nine runs, a homer, seven RBIs and a beautiful 8-for-8 on the bases. Ron Washington seems prepared to ride this hot hand for as long as it lasts; even with Nelson Cruz(notes) back in the Texas lineup Thursday against Minnesota, Borbon stayed in the lineup and posted a juicy 5-2-3-3 line (with a homer) from the leadoff spot. Look for Borbon to continue to start against right-handed pitching until he gives the Rangers a reason to do something

The Juggernaut Index is our annual ranking of NFL teams for fantasy purposes. Repeat: FOR FANTASY PURPOSES. We're interested in yards and points here. We began at No. 32, the NFL's least useful franchise (Oakland), and we're working our way toward the elite teams. These ranks are astonishingly accurate and highly collectible. Please enjoy them responsibly.

14. Denver Broncos

The NFL has turned into a reshuffle league in the salary cap era and no current team symbolizes that more than the retooled 2009 Broncos. Consider what's become of their fantasy-relevant parts over the last eight months. Long-tenured mastermind head coach? Fired. Pro Bowl-level quarterback? Traded. Franchise wide receiver? Unhappy. Backfield situation? A mess, as usual.

There's been plenty written about Denver's offseason drama so for the most part we'll steer away from the departed in this space. Thanks for 14 interesting years, Mike Shanahan. Good luck in Chicago, Jay Cutler(notes). We're not here to talk about

The payoff came a year late with Michael Bourn(notes), but you have to admit it's been worth the wait.

Bourn landed in Houston last spring with a new-found starting job and a lot of fantasy buzz; remember he stole 18-of-19 bases in a limited 2006 role in Philadelphia. There was nothing special about Bourn's bat but given the speed at play we didn't much care. Just put the ball in play as much as possible and let those legs scoop up an easy 60 bases.

Alas, you still can't steal first base in this game. Bourn's loopy swing and poor plate discipline led to a nightmare time at the plate last season (.229/.288/.300) and even though he swiped 41 bags he didn't really help fantasy owners at the end of the day (57 runs is embarrassing for a regular leadoff man, not to mention 29 RBIs). The wisdom of crowds took a hands-off approach to Bourn at the beginning of 2009; he wasn't drafted in a lot of mixed leagues back in March.

Here's what most of us didn't realize or want to accept at the time –

Another Friends and Family Draft has come and gone, which means I come over here and discuss the method behind my selection madness. No need for a long preamble, you know what you're doing.

The exercise at hand is a competitive 14-team expert league. We're using points per reception this year along with three starting receivers and a flex spot, but everything else is fairly standard. Let's get in the war room and see what went down, where I reached and where I found value.

• 1.11: Randy Moss(notes) – I was prepared to take Brian Westbrook(notes), and all of his baggage, but he fell in the ten spot. Moss is an acceptable Plan B and fits my early-round strategy of getting at least one dynamic receiver. Given the scope of this league (PPR, three receivers every week) and the backfield timeshare trend that's taken over the NFL, I felt more than ever it was okay to stray from the boring "backs early" mandate that we all seemed to follow for so many years.

• 2.04: Marion Barber(notes) –