No. 4 Starter? Check.
All I've been saying in this blog and to my friends is exactly what happened Wednesday.
The Mets traded a non-prospect for a starting pitcher that could fill our 4 or 5 spot.
Wednesday night the Mets traded Jorge Julio for Orlando Hernandez. Blockbuster? No...
But this trade does a couple of things.
First, We as fans and the Mets as a team feel that with El Duque, whatever he may have left, we are sending a #4 out there that has a shot to win.
Three starts and we gave that up with Lima.
It is definitely an important feeling.
Secondly, and what I believe is a very direct goal of this trade, was that Omar Minaya was saying, Aaron Heilman, you're in the pen.
By trading Julio all of a sudden the pen needs Heilman or at least a bit more than it did 24 hours ago.
Who's to say if this deal will work out. El Duque could absolutely stink. But I am of the school of thought that a pitcher coming to Shea can only get better. This guy has proven in the past that he can win and he could just be crafty enough to pull something off for us.
Most importantly, we didn't give up pretty much anything of value and we have another shot at a decent starter.
If one start is any indication for Alay Soler(which it clearly isn't) then we may have a 4/5 with this guy.
All it takes is one more and our rotation could fill out.
It is my opinion that we should go after every El Duque available, most notably the Reds Dave Williams and the Twins Kyle Lohse.
We only need 1 guy to step up and as long as that guy doesn't cost us anything, I say go for it.
For now though, be content with El Duque. We turned a guy we had no confidence in at all into our No. 4 starter, a guy who has thrived in New York before and thrived in big moments before.
It's starting to come together, Pepper, it's starting to come together.
VCD,
SM
The Mets traded a non-prospect for a starting pitcher that could fill our 4 or 5 spot.
Wednesday night the Mets traded Jorge Julio for Orlando Hernandez. Blockbuster? No...
But this trade does a couple of things.
First, We as fans and the Mets as a team feel that with El Duque, whatever he may have left, we are sending a #4 out there that has a shot to win.
Three starts and we gave that up with Lima.
It is definitely an important feeling.
Secondly, and what I believe is a very direct goal of this trade, was that Omar Minaya was saying, Aaron Heilman, you're in the pen.
By trading Julio all of a sudden the pen needs Heilman or at least a bit more than it did 24 hours ago.
Who's to say if this deal will work out. El Duque could absolutely stink. But I am of the school of thought that a pitcher coming to Shea can only get better. This guy has proven in the past that he can win and he could just be crafty enough to pull something off for us.
Most importantly, we didn't give up pretty much anything of value and we have another shot at a decent starter.
If one start is any indication for Alay Soler(which it clearly isn't) then we may have a 4/5 with this guy.
All it takes is one more and our rotation could fill out.
It is my opinion that we should go after every El Duque available, most notably the Reds Dave Williams and the Twins Kyle Lohse.
We only need 1 guy to step up and as long as that guy doesn't cost us anything, I say go for it.
For now though, be content with El Duque. We turned a guy we had no confidence in at all into our No. 4 starter, a guy who has thrived in New York before and thrived in big moments before.
It's starting to come together, Pepper, it's starting to come together.
VCD,
SM
posted by Sippy Momo at 12:00 PM
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Note from Twins land, Loshe had a good first outing in his AAA assignment. 1 ER, 4H, 4K, 1BB in 7 innnings.
a reyes le gusta el flax seed oil en sus culo cheeks... DING
knock it off, charlie.
Ugh annoying but the Mets fought back at least... when was our last loss where we didn't get the tying run to the plate at least... it's never over with us and I LOVE THAT. Look, with Trachsel + Soler + Gonzales against the Phillies: I'm pretty damn happy with taking 2 out of 3. Now we got Pedro and Glavine and El Duque against the Marlins and then home vs the D-Backs... let's take 4 of the next 6. This team is 100% rebounded from that bad road trip and the Mets staff is in better shape than its been for a while. Adios Mr Gonzales, thanks for your time. Let's GO METS
PS Nice to see Reyes getting hot hot hot ... if he goes on a real hot streak then we can rip off a shitload of games in a row good gracious.... love handing the ball to Pedro after a loss...let's go
who is this dave williams?(i hope O did not give up too much (the Manuel kid had impressive stats, albeit low minors' stats). I love the combo of Duque/Soler/Maine/ Bannister/Williams(i guess) battling it out for the last 2 spots in the rotation...Like last year, too much starting pitching is a great problem to have, especially with a really good bullpen (if Feliciano can stop 2nd guessing himself in the damn media and just get the job done). I say keep 3 of those 5 on the roster with the 2 underachievers on standby @triple A. Especially since maine has perpetual boogahs on is fingers, duque is my pops age and bannister popped his hamstring 2xs? in less than a month...
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