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NEW YORK -- Ready or not, Jose Reyes is set to join the New York Mets.Reyes will be added to the roster for Tuesdays game against the Miami Marlins after playing 11 minor league games, the Mets announced late Monday.After being released by the Colorado Rockies and signing with the Mets on June 25, Reyes hit .176 (6-for-34) while tuning up with short-season Brooklyn and Double-A Binghamton. He exclusively played third base, the position he is poised to primarily assume, displacing Wilmer Flores.Although Reyes, 33, was warmly received while playing in the Mets minor league system, his return to New York, his original major league team, is not without its detractors.He was arrested Oct. 31 after a physical altercation with his wife at the Four Seasons Resort Maui in Wailea, Hawaii. He allegedly grabbed his wife, Katherine, by the throat and pushed her into a sliding-glass door in their hotel room. Reyes wife declined to cooperate with prosecutors, and a judge in Hawaii formally dropped a domestic abuse charge in April.Major League Baseball suspended Reyes without pay through May 31 for violating its domestic abuse policy. He forfeited $6.25 million in salary as a result of the suspension.The Rockies designated Reyes for assignment and released him shortly after the suspension was served.I feel like what he did was awful, terrible, said Mets captain David Wright, a longtime teammate of Reyes. Theres just no other way around it. With that being said, in my eyes, hes done what he could do to earn a second chance. If hes going to be given a second chance, I think this is a good place for it. I think hes comfortable here. This is home for him.I cant say it enough: What he did is something that is horrible and should never be done. So I hope that hes learned his lesson. In everything he said, it seems like hes acknowledged the great mistake that it was and that hes not going to let it happen again, and I hope thats correct.The Mets originally signed Reyes in 1999 as a 16-year-old out of the Dominican Republic, and he was a member of the organization for a dozen years. He last appeared in a game for the Mets on Sept. 28, 2011. He bunted for a base hit in his first at-bat to secure the National League batting title, then departed the season finale. He went on to sign a six-year, $106 million contract as a free agent with the Marlins that December.Ex-Met Edgardo Alfonzo, a coach in the Mets organization, tutored Reyes -- a four-time All-Star shortstop -- at third base during his stint in the minors.Manager Terry Collins has indicated that he will place Reyes atop the batting order and relocate Curtis Granderson to the No. 2 slot.Hes going to bring us a ton of energy, Wright said. And I think thats something we can really use is his dynamic on the field -- his speed, his charisma, his ability.Reyes so badly wanted to return to the Mets that he agreed to a team option in his contract for next season. The Mets will have to pay Reyes only the MLB minimum salary through the end of the 2017 season, provided they pick up the option. The Rockies will be responsible for roughly $38 million.New York will pay Reyes only a prorated share of the $507,500 major league minimum this season, or $250,617.Even after he departed as a free agent back in 2011, Reyes maintained his offseason home in Manhasset on Long Island.Information from ESPNs Darren Rovell and The Associated Press was used in this report. Custom Colorado Avalanche Jerseys . -- Hunter Smith scored the winner with just 12 seconds remaining in the third period as the Oshawa Generals edged the host Sarnia Sting 5-4 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. Colorado Avalanche Store . 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West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite said the support given to him by senior players was a major factor in achieving victory on his captaincy debut. No one was more pivotal than allrounder Dwayne Bravo, whose nerveless final over clinched a one-run win over India in a run fest at the Central Broward Regional Park in Florida.I just want to publicly say thanks to all the senior guys for the help and support they give me on the field throughout the 20 overs, Brathwaite said after the win. Everyone always has suggestions and it kind of eased my role as captain, as a new captain as well, to have such maturity and such experience on the field always lending a helping hand.Before the final ball, we were just fiddling with fields and wondering if to double-bluff or just try to stop the two. So Bravo finally decided and I asked him, Whats your plan? He said, A slower ball. I didnt believe hed bowl a slower ball but I told him, Im backing you. Execute. Express yourself. I know he came out trumps for us once again and for how many ever years hes been doing it in T20 cricket for West Indies, once again he bowled a champion over, stuck to his guns and bowled a very, very top last delivery to one of the best finishers in world cricket.Outside of the final over, Brathwaite said the game as a whole was one of the most memorable T20 affairs hed been a part of, made even more special by the fact that it ended with a victory, in his first match leading the side.Its a relief. I always wanted to get that first one, that first win as captain, Brathwaite said. I know it was a fantastic team effort by the boys. I think that was one of the better T20 games Ive ever been a part of and it was a fantastic spectacle and Im just happy that my first game could be memorable but most importantly that we came out on top.Brathwaite was playing in the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill for the first time, having been with the West Indies Test squad throughout the four-Test series earlier in Indias tour. But with the exception of Brathwaite and Marlon Samuels, the other nine members of the West Indies XI on Saturday had all recently pllayed at the stadium last month, when the Caribbean Premier League held a six-match leg at the facility, while Samuels had also played for West Indies at the ground in 2012.ddddddddddddhe West Indies squads familiarity with the nuances of the venue proved vital at the start of the match, in particular for Evin Lewis and Johnson Charles. One aspect of the ground is the deceptive wind patterns. From field level, the breeze is only faintly detectable. However, standing at the top of the grandstand one will notice the jet stream that cuts through the roof of the stands and blows from elevation northwest above the ground. All thats required is to get underneath the ball and mother nature does most of the work carrying it over the ropes for six.Charles utilised this jet stream to score brisk half-centuries for St Lucia Zouks against Jamaica Tallawahs in both innings he played at the venue last month while Lewis made 79 for St Kitts & Nevis Patriots against Trinbago Knight Riders. On Saturday, West Indies reached 164 for 1 after 11 overs, and 109 of those runs came in the six overs batting from the Pavilion End, hitting with the jet stream.The last over in that stretch was Lewis 32-run 11th over which began with five sixes off Stuart Binny. In all, 16 of the record 21 sixes hit by West Indies on the day came batting from the Pavilion End, making a mockery of the 73-yard boundary measured off by groundsman Mark Perham. Conversely, India only scored 62 runs from their first six overs batting from the Pavilion End.Lewis, who was Man of the Match for his maiden hundred in just his second T20I for West Indies, said afterward that having the experience of playing in the ground recently as part of the CPL was a definite advantage over India at the start of the game.It had a big impact obviously, Lewis said. I played two games on the wicket. Kudos to the groundsman. Hes been doing an extremely good job. I just went out there and backed myself, hit the balls in my scoring areas and put them away. ' ' '