Some various notes after a trip to Citi Field today for the annual New York chapter meeting of the Baseball Writers Association of America:
* Acting on numerous complaints from fans and opposing teams about being unable to see the field, the Mets are reconfiguring the Citi Field bullpen in time for next season. Instead of being stacked horizontally with the visiting bullpen in back, the bullpens will now be side-by-side vertically in center field to give both teams a view of the action.
* GM Omar Minaya still won’t rule out bringing back veteran first baseman Carlos Delgado in 2010 as a one-year free agent bridge to top prospect Ike Davis at that position. Minaya said he plans to go to Puerto Rico next month to watch Delgado play winter ball as part of the 37-year-old slugger’s plan to show he is healthy. Delgado played in just 26 games last season due to hip surgery and a strained oblique.
* Minaya said right fielder Jeff Francoeur, who had been considered a non-tender candidate, will be back with the Mets in 2010. Francoeur, who hit .311 with 10 homers and 41 RBIs in 75 games after being acquired from Atlanta, is one of eight Mets who were deemed eligible for salary arbitration if the club tenders them by baseball’s Dec. 12 deadline.