Send me an Angel Pagan

Carlos Beltran is going to be out for a little while. Seems like the Mets were eithr lying about the severity of their players injuries or their trainers are incompetent! Apparently Carlos was starting his winter training and while running with his toy poodles, yeah, was getting more and more pain in his, what had him out for half the season?, oh yes, bruise on his knee! His knee problems and the fact he only has 2 years left on his contract makes me wonder why they didn't go after Holliday. Holliday has never had a serious or season long injury and is 2 years younger than Bay and has a career average 30 points higher. The Mets were afraid to sign Bay to more than 4 years because of fear of his age and possible bad knees. Holliday signed a contract around 500,000 more a year, when averaged without the extra years. The thought of having 32 year old Holliday with Wright and Reyes seems much more optomistic future when Beltran's contract is up over 34 year old .260 hitting Bay with possible bad knees. So the Mets go out and get Gary "HGH" Matthews to play center while Beltran is out. Not so fast Gary, Angel Pagan is way too good to lose a job to your weak .250 hitting bat. Don't worry though, Angel will get hurt early and maybe you'll also get some time in left. Just another ex-Met they trade away and try to get later on when their careers are winding down.

3 Sheets to the Wind

Ben Sheets just signed 1 year with the A's for $10 million. This is not the really any bad news for me because the Mets do not need a guy with the injury record he has. The worst news is that Jon Garland, the most consistent starter out there in the free agent market this year, signed a 1 year deal with the Padres for about $5 million. Minaya's was so single minded with signing Bay and Molina, really making them offers and sitting on his handa waiting to hear back from them, he has let pretty much ever healthy pitcher get away. I was actually relieved when Marquis and Pineiro signed with other teams because then the Mets would go after Garland. Garland has consistently pitched 200 innings a year with about a 4.00 ERA. This would be a very good improvement for a staff with such big question marks. I think Pelfrey will be much better in his 3rd year, Maine may have his arm fall off, and letting Olly be Olly will lead Olly back to the minor leagues, and who knows will be the 5th starter. Now we are left with trying to sign unreliable guys such as Smoltz, Pedro, Bedard, or Washburn! Out of the group you really should try to get 2 of them because 1 will definitely not last the season. I say sign Bedard and either Smoltz or Pedro. I sense a long season where we will at most finish 3rd in the division and possibly 4th.