Inside Pitch

Pitchers and catchers report Thursday around major-league spring camps, including the Mets' complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Plenty of players who will likely be on the Bisons are scheduled to be there and the Herd today announced its spring training schedule of exhibition games.

All games will be at 1 p.m. and will either be at the Mets' complex or the joint Marlins/Cardinals complex in Jupiter against the New Orleans Zephyrs (Florida) or Memphis Redbirds (St. Louis). If you're thinking about the trip, both locations are on Florida's East Coast. The schedule:

March 19 New Orleans (Port St. Lucie)
March 20 at Memphis (Jupiter)
March 21 Camp Day (Port St. Lucie)
March 22 at Memphis (Jupiter)
March 23 at New Orleans (Jupiter)
March 24 Camp Day (Port St. Lucie)
March 25 at Memphis (Jupiter)
March 26 at New Orleans (Jupiter)
March 27 Camp Day (Port St. Lucie)
March 28 Memphis (Port St. Lucie)
March 29 Camp Day (Port St. Lucie)
March 30 Memphis (Port St. Lucie)
March 31 New Orleans (Port St. Lucie)
April 1 Camp Day (Port St. Lucie)
April 2 New Orleans (Port St. Lucie)

Thanks to Adam Rubin's fabulous Surfing the Mets blog at the New York Daily News, here's the full list of Mets campers. A large number of the players under non-roster invitees at the bottom are the six-year free agents who should be joining the Bisons. 

The Bisons, remember, open the season April 8 in Scranton and play their home opener April 14 against Pawtucket.

---Mike Harrington
(www.twitter.com/bnharrington)