The Run Fairy™
I'm completely speechless. The Mets managed to trade Mike Stanton, mortal enemy of leads and Mets fans everywhere, but in his place they have acquired possibly the worst reliever in baseball. Flabbergasting. Seriously, how incompetent do you have to be to trade Stanton and get worse in the process? I really can't understand how people can even try to defend this deal. Sure the Mets saved money, but come on, who's going to care about that million bucks when we witness The Run Fairy's™ magical powers? Yeah, getting rid of Stanton is a stroke of genius, but not when Felix Heredia and Pedro Feliciano will be the designated left-handers in the bullpen next year. Or what, do you feel confident that any of these two buffoons will be able to ever get out Jim Thome and Bobby Abreu? You can talk all you want about Stanton, but at least he was a credible bullpen option. Should he have been pitching the 8th inning? No way. But as a fifth or four option out of the bullpen he was okay. Thank you Omar, you have done the impossible, you have made miss Mike Stanton.
posted by OFF @ 1:15 PM
4 Comments:
I can think of 2 reasons:
1) We dump him
2) We option him to the minors with hopes that he can get better and let one of our younger arms like McGinley or Ring take his spot, preferably McGinley. This is of course if he even has options left.
There are two reasons I like this deal. One being Mike Stanton is gone. Two, it's alot easier to release Felix Heredia then it is Mike Stanton. Plus since we saved some money and hopefully we use it I can live with it.
Now if their plan is to actaully use Heredia this year and not get someone else, then that is another totally different question. Only time will tell there.
I'm pretty sure Heredia will be with the Mets this year and I'm pretty sure people will hate him even more Stanton at the end of the year. He's horrible.
McGinley and Ring are available in the rule 5 draft. Its a pretty safe bet to assume that they'll both picked and I'm figuring that at least one wont coming back.
I dunno OFF. I just get the feeling from this deal that it was made to give the Mets more fleibility financially and roster wise. I just think it is alot easier to drop a guy doing poorly at around 2million dollars then it is at 4million per season. If Heredia comes in and does what most people think he will, which is stink and have no use, I don't know why you would want him on the team unless his salary was making you keep him, which it shouldn't be.
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