Various news outlets are reporting tonight that the New York Mets have signed Kelvim Escobar to a one year Major League contract.
The 33 year-old right hander has pitched for two teams throughout his big league career; first with the Toronto Blue Jays and most recently with the Los Angeles Angels.
During his career, Escobar has amassed a win/loss record of 101-91 and compiled an ERA of 4.15.
His best season came in 2007 when he made 30 starts and compiled a record of 18-7 and maintained an ERA of 3.40.
Strangely this deal is not a minor league contract, as was suggested a couple of days ago, instead it will be a major league one.
As Newsday’s Ken Davidoff points out, the fact that the Mets handed him a major league contract ” shows how enamored the Mets (and others) are by the guy’s arm, when healthy”.
Another interesting note to point out is that according to the NY Post’s Joel Sherman, the team intends to use Escobar as a setup man for Francisco Rodriguez.
This is rather confusing as mutliple reports suggested that newly signed, Ryota Igarashi, was to be the new eighth inning pitcher.
All in all, I really like this deal for the Mets and I think it is one of the few things Omar has done right this season, despite the fact that Escobar has only logged five innings since 2007.
Provided Minaya did not guarantee a ridiculous amount of money to the veteran pitcher, this signing could turn out to be a beneficial one for the team.
Lastly, Merry Christmas to everyone, who celebrates the holiday. For those who do not celebrate, take today as an opportunity to enjoy a good movie and perhaps some Chinese food.
UPDATE: According to the terms of the deal. Escobar will be used exclusively as reliever so as to preserve his arm strength. This was done at the request of Kelvim.
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I fear that instead of Escobar being the first of many moves to back themselves up, Escobar is going to be given too much importance too soon and, when he gets hurt again, will leave the Mets with another huge gaping hole that they can’t fill until it’s too late. When the Mets got J.J. Putz, it was great but more moves needed to be made. They weren’t. And Putz going down was something the Mets couldn’t recover from (the club’s handling of his injury didn’t help either.)
You want to tell me that Escobar is “low risk/high reward”, fine. I hated that term when it applied to Gary Sheffield … because it’s my belief that it never applied to Sheffield. Signing Sheffield is never, ever “low risk”. I still hate that term, but I’ll grant you that signing Escobar could portray this mythical “low risk/high reward” scenario. But that’ll be true only if he’s put in a position where losing him to yet another injury (and let’s face it, his history doesn’t look good here) isn’t going to hurt them. Knowing the Mets and their recent history, I doubt that this is going to happen. The eyes of Omar will no doubt be too big for their stomachs and Escobar, after a stellar April, will be given the keys to the kingdom, just as Livan Hernandez was at one time. Escobar will then promptly lose said keys in the needle disposal bin of the surgery room he’ll be visiting, and the Mets will be lost along with those keys.
If he’s our #9 back up pitcher I’m fine wit that, make him compete with perez, hopefully if that’s the case either we no longer have to see him pitching for us or living to that god awful contract.
I like this signing for the Mets except I wish it was a minor league deal with an invite. That said, these recent signings remind me too much of the same reward/risk type pitchers we signed last year. Everybody felt the Freddy Garcia, Livan Hernandez and Tim Redding were good no risk type deals, but they bore little fruit. These types of signings are usually embraced with hope, but nothing usually comes from it. I can’t even remember the last time the mets hit one out of the park with a free agent signing like this? Maine and El Duque were trades, and we all remember Lima time.
Escobar is better pitcher than L.Hernandez,Garica and Redding. I was watching Escobar pitch that one game this year he looked very good. He reached 95,96 MPH and he had a very good slider. He will be great in the setup role. Even if he gets hurt he is worth the risk.
Her eis Omar, once again scouring the slag heaps of baseball looking for the most important commodity any team can obtain. Need I say more?
What? Escobar is a very good pitcher. I guess you think he is bad because you never heard of him or never saw him pitch.
Escobar is a pitcher who has not pitched in two years. I do not think he was ever “very good.” He had a good year here and there .No one is clamoring for him now. He is on the garbage heap. In MLB, when no one wants you (are you listening, Ollie), you are garbage. I actually hope he comes in and does well. I am not holding my breath. I just wish our management would focus on guys who have a future.
jdon, get used to it, this is the fresult of crippling Omar, who’s the sole NYM frontoffice person with any vision since Frank Cashen. “just geting by” was the slogan from Frank’s retirement to Duquette’s demotion. No BIG NAME FREE AGENTS!!!”EXCUSES R US” CREATED THE 24 & 1 EXCUSE AS WELL AS THE BAD BACK EXCUSE. Past their primes, Ziele, Ventura,Burnitz when all we heard was this “low risk” crap. It was Omar who suprised us all by successfully competing for Pedro & Beltran.
get comfortable, by underappreciasting OMAR MINAYA you’ve all condemned us to mediocrity & a return to “GETTING BY”
I don’t think a pitcher that can throw 95,96 MPH with a good slider could be on the garbage heap.
How much are we going to pay him 1 million? Why not take a chance on him?
Jdon, have you ever seen Escobar pitch? If you did you would think it is a good signing.
Chicho:
You do realize escobar blew his elbow out 2 times in 2008 n pitche 1 inning last year?? With that being said he’s clocked around 92-93, but agree his slider n curve r nasty.. And if healthy can be a great addition to the bullpen. Btw, his deal is 1.25 mill wit bonus and incentives can be around 3 mill.
I know he has been hurt. and he will most likely get hurt again. But if you have a chance to get a pitcher like Escobar for 1.25 million you have to jump on it.
Yeah, but if we on tight budget why keep investing in injured players when that’s the last thing we need? Plus, handing out 2 mill for cora doesn’t help our situation either
I don’t believe the Mets are on a tight budget. If they were they wouldn’t be trying to sign Bay and Molina.
If they weren’t they’d sign holliday and lackey. But bay is said to be offer a backloaded contract and molina 6 mill per. They have about 30 mill to spend this offseason. And about 6 holes to fill.
I wouldn’t call 30 million a tight budget.
It is if the holes r as big as we have em.. A power 1b or a power lf is gonna cost, a good #2 is gonna cost, another 2b is gonna cost, but as I said b4, lets hope omar is working on a trade or something, coz the market doesn’t look good 4 us
I agree the Mets have alot of holes. We filled one of our holes cheaply by signing Escobar. Escobar is cheaper than the other relief pitchers out there and is probally the best. We needed to address the bullpen Escobar helps us alot. He saves us money and maybe a game or two.
See my first post in this article, I’m afraid they sign him thinking he’d be there all season.. Coz we wouldn’t wanna count on him to be healthy or a inexperience japanese import to be the bridge to k-rod. Biemel in our rotation would give us a deadly bullpen.
You’re right we need another lefty in the bullpen. Remember that game when the Mets brought in takahsi to face Utley? Beimel is good but I would like to see them trade for A. rhodes along with Phillips and one of the Reds starters. I know Rhodes is 100 years old now but he is still very effective against left handed hitters.
Omar would be insane if he thinks Escobar will pitch the whole year. He will go on the DL at least once this year.
Exactly, I hope he learn from last year, he traded for putz when he knew was hurt and stop right there, arthur rhodes is good, but u said it he’s 100 y/o.. While biemel continue to shut down lefties. Plus, we need all the relievers we can carry coz maine, perez, pelfrey (not so much pelfrey) r all 5 inning pitchers.. That’s why we need a #2 badly..
The big question for the Mets this year is are they going to get a #2 starter. They might be able to get away with signing someone like Bryd,Dye, or Vald in LF. but They won’t be able to get away with Pelfery as the #2. There now is no legit #2 availible in FA. There might be one availible in a trade. They should try to get Harang or Arroyo but they are more like #3 than a number#2.
The Mets can contend this year but first they need to fix the rotation.
Chicho, once more the comment I widhed to reply to is unreplyable, so Ill use this one, BTW: The Mets TRUE BUDGET has always remained the Luxury Line, they WILL NOT be allowed to ever cross under FRED’S OWNERSHIP/DECREE!. This was certainly true with Phillips as GM whereas Fred always set a Safety Net false budget well below the TAX incurrment line with strict instructions to not surpass it without his personal approval. Ftred trusted Omar as the sole GM he allowed the Trust to work without imposition of a Safety Net where Omar’s line was the Actual Line for tax incurment, NOW, with Jeffie in Charge we’re back to the Safety Net issue. Fred Knows his Second Son isn’t his brightest bulb of his fasmily Chandelier.
jdon, once more i sense in u a frustrated fan envious of nyy spending habits. with our ownership, there is a hard budget. there is no completeing the holiday shopping list while only walking FIFTH AVENUE, to actually buy some FIFTH AVE quality, the SMART SHOPPER knows when a trip to the OUTLET MALL or The Dollar Store for stocking stuffers is needed to stay within budget. Thus u acquire a LF (Alou) & a series of #5, long-refiief pitchers, all virtual low demanding positions.
You can sense what you want but when you say that omar has “vision” then I have to disregard your opinions from this point forward. The yankees do things better than the mets. That is not blasphemy, that is fact. I am not envious of their money, just their professionalism.
jdon, have u just become a Mets’ fan? I agree with your statements re. NYY.
One question, Is the DIRECTION set by an employee or an owner? Do you not think John Schurholtz would have loved to keep Glavine from NY? Why didn’t he? The answer is the tail doesn’t wag the dog, the dog wags the tail. Ownership is THE DOG employees are the TAIL. This sentiment is true for every Business entity out there from the corner Grocery Store to IBM, the Pittsburgh Pirates to the New York Yankees and everything in between.
jdon, thanks to you & your ilk u’ve returned us to preOmar conditions under Lil’ Jeffie, did u just start rooting for NYM in ‘05? if so, u r excused from remembering our big signings as end of career Ziele & Ventura, Burnitz. Pre-Omar when the most frequently uttered phrase in the NYM frontoffice during Free Agency was Low Risk/High Reward. High Risks need not apply same with Big Ticket, No Risk Players as the fans were told aBOUT 24+1 SCHEMES & HOW BAD BACKS were very risky!
Suddenly, that all changed & Met fans were actually Shocked to learn their team was talking seriously with Pedro Martinez & their negativism at hearing Boston was in the hunt made most discount the possiblity of Pedro in Flushing, it had never happened before. the NYM had never actually WON a big name free agent bidding war despite offering as much, if not more to Dave Winfield, the Yanks were his choice as his best means to Jewelry! When did all that change? 2005! We outbid Boston on Pedro, as well as outbid Houston on Beltran, againstr all precedent & odds. By the time 2008 came around with all the talk being about another bidding war between Boston & Yankees for Santana & oh, BTW the Mets have an outside shot despite having no high valued prospects to offer.
jdon, did u so dislike relevancy that u were glad to throw it away over Ollie Perez & Luis Castillo?
It’s very unfortunate for our team that this is the year the Wilpons have chosen to hamstring our usually very active GM. While many gut-reacting fans clamor for a change in frontoffice, it has to be very apparent to all true students, that like every new regime, a period of assessment typically causes little activity and slowly developing direction. With this franchise, a degree of trust established many yrs ago from Fred to Omar will be lost and our typically very conservative, sole owner will maintain the same tight rein he employed on Phillips, negating any strives, everyone took for granted after 3 successive signings of BIG NAMED F/A(Pedro, Beltran, Wagner) you’d have to go back over 30 yrs to find that caliber of name even competed for(Winfield) since I, for one, do not consider the signing of George Foster as anything more than a FAILED Winfield endeavor consolation prize.
Don’t knoew how any of you feel; but i was absolutely shocked, when the NYM successfully outbid Boston for Pedro after so many yrs of just teasing on “big” names like Grffey,A-Rod.
As i started saying, i fear this Escobar signing marks a return to the practice of “pressing our noses up to the display case on “BIG” acquisitions, then shopping @ John’s Bargain Store. Not one of you “Omar Haters” should complain, this is exactly what u’ve been begging for.
If you thought, an omar replacement would be alloweed to compete with the likes of “THE BIG BOYS, NYY,BOSOX” you haven’t been paying attention. those of you who chose to actually blame Omar for not signing Manny or any other so called “missed opportunities”. it’s obvious you are oblivious to the simple fact that despite pronouncments, announcements, Fred was always in charge & the absolute only one with free rein regarding all operations & any,every GM was subject to his desires for a “COMPETITIVE” TEAM THAT PRODUCED ZERO SCANDALS & ZERO NEGATIVE HEADLINES. NB. Fred’s definition of a Competitive Team is different from any of yours, it’s based upon his Beloved Brooklyn Dodgers the Perennial SECOND BEST TEAM IN NYC! “THOSE WHO REFUSE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT” Welcome back! to the Steve Phillips’ era. I’m shocked at how little most of you remeber of those days. How Piazza’s acquiosition was opposed by both Fred Wilpon & Steve Phillips until they were overridden by then majority owner Nelson Doubleday in his last great gift to the FANS.
The Wilpons have to go that is a fact, it’s not they don’t spend money they just aren’t really good baseball people. This commitee idea of running a team is bad. You have one guy making the decision and hope that individual has great baseball sense. Omar isn’t really that guy, he concentrates way to much on what he knows and doesn’t go outside his comfort zone.
I say call this year a bust! And by that I mean sign one year deals on guys like Dye, Cust, Sheet, Barajas and try really hard to trade for Arroyo and Phillips. Keep all the major rookies except tejada (Reds) and spend their money next year on Cliff Lee, Beckett, V Martinez etc…! This year really depends on the Health of Beltran, Krod, Santana, Perez, Reyes and the rise or fall of Pelfrey. Bay isn’t going to be the solution.
Santana, Sheets, Perez, Arroyo, Pelfrey
Reyes,Murphy,Wright,Beltran,Dye/Cust,Francouer,Phillips,Bajaras
Krod,Escobar,Jap,Stokes,Green,Felciano,LHRP
Cora,Carter,Blanco,Pagan,RHB
Depth; Santos, Thole, Davis, FMart, Niese, Nieve, Holt, Parnell
WILL:
U mean to tell me that if the mets put that team on the field and everyone stay healthy/produce to capability we wouldn’t be a championship contender?? And u wanna call the year a bust?!?? Wow.. U know, not every championship team has to have an all star at every position.. Shoot, if minaya puts together THAT team u call a bust I’D send him 3 bottles of dom perignon myself to congratulate him on winning executive of the year!!
Sorry, didn’t mean the year as a bust for them to contend meant the offseason as far as getting the big Free Agents. I feel the Mets healthy and adding a couple of more healthy bodies( Sheets, Barajas, Dye and Phillips) would make the team capable of matching any teams from the NL East.
I just rather keep the money for the deadline(Which the Mets by then should know where they are at), or next years FA crop which are better than this year. By getting Arroyo, Dye and Sheets, they free up a lot of money next year. And by than they can actually evaluate what FMart, Thole and Davis are going to be. Which allows them to throw money into their rotation behind Santana.
Agree, I’ve said they should put a deadline on molina and bay and move on rom there. Sheets/wang/bedard r good pitchersif healthy, and can compliment santana, but we need a reliable 200 inning pitch guy like arroyo. I don’t like the idea of dye but for 1 year in lf I can live wit that. Although if we land holliday I’D be thrilled
The thing is you usually cannot sign those guys to one year deals. Maybe Sheets off the surgery, maybe Dye because he is old, but you have to wait him out to get him to agree to a year. Someone else could come along and snatch him. So you are stuck with these guys when you might want to make other plans. This is why keeping Omar was such a colossal mistake. And the Wilpons do have to go, but you would have to break them financially to make that happen. They love their toy.
Alex, I’m confused and can’t help wondering where all this “love” for Ben Sheets as an answer is coming from. I live Outside the WFAN sphere & cant’t help; but think there is a so-called prophet on the airwaves in love with Sheets as a met. since Sheets is demanding 12m/yr & refusing to pitch a showcase session to display his health. Can anyone actually declare him worthy of anythying. here are the Ben SAheets facts: he’s missed time over past 5 yrs with back,shoulder & elbow problems. only one, elbow, was addressed causing him to totally be inactive for 2009, he’s not willing to audition & unwilling to sign an incentive deal! WARNING WARNING WILL ROBINSON!!! Personally, i believe under those circumstances Ollie Perez was less risky!
Mets62:
Is not love for sheets, but as of right now he’s the best available pitcher on the market. Granted if healthy, he wants 12 mill but that doesn’t mean he’ll get it. Maybe wit incentives, I’ll take a shot @ him becoz of his upside, give him 5 mill wit 12 in incentives, bonus, etc. But I also say we need a guy who can give us 200+ innings, garland is the answer, but we need someone wit enough upside to be our #2, wether is someone like wang, sheets, bedard. The thing is all of them r high reward/low risk type of guy, unless omar makes a trade for a pitcher as of now these r our best available options
Alex, yor statement criticizing the 2M for Cora is unreplyable, this is my reply:
Everyone complains anbout a lack of grit on this team. a perceived “softness”. Alex Cora, seeing the decimation of injuries surrounding him. “Sucked it up” and played most of the yr with not one thumb injury; but two of them. How do u instill that as a ‘Way to be gritty’ if u ignore it for a measly 2M, a contract equal to ‘09.
Anyone complaining about Cora’s deal has an awful lot to learn regarding Leadership & Reward. Next time a really important player gets injured & is asked if he’s healthy enough to play? why should he say yes if he’s just seen someone who sacrificed to the team be nickeled & dimed off the roster. Alex, it’s called “SHOWING APPRECIATION”, as well as “PUTTING YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!”
Mets62:
Is also called when ur a lifetime .245 hitter u better have some intangibles n respect for the game, look, I get the whole “gritty” “leader” statement, but honestly, there was no need to rush n give him 2mill same as 2009, I’m sure is phone wasn’t ringing off the hook from other teams callin in for alex cora, let alone at that price, when other player get maybe half or less n play the same role. Plus, u said it urself, he had 2 thumbs surgery, more likely makin his 245 avg to drop. He’s a good version of castillo, more than 1 too much in this team. Deals to all the alex cora’s of the world r done late, not as early as our gm did, remember everytime he’s done this backsfire in his face (alou, el duque, castillo)
Could not agree more METS62FAN. I also think Freddy sits in his office daydreaming about his “beloved Brooklyn Dodgers”. This team MUST BE SOLD.
tommy, that would be a “nice, easy solution”; however all NEW OWNER CANDIDATES must first be approved by the ownership committee,you’re an intellegent fan, what’s the chances of getting a freer spending, more aggressive owner through that committee? It used to be the committee’s function to assess the perspective buyer’s financial ability to sustain operations, to maintain ‘integrity’ of game by having the ability to sustain operations @ a level not damaging to mlb image.
Today, they’re more interested in maintaing a mktplace they can survive in and the addition of a free-spending, aggressive BIG MARKET team is not in their best interests. Ergo, owners like Steinbrenner, Henry will be subjected to demands meant to discourage further interest. See what Cubs recently went through. BTW large increases in expenses are discouraged in the years it takes for new ownership approval(see Mark Cuban’s attempt to purchase Cubs)
Also with a dedicated $20M in revenue guaranteed from Citigroup for naming rights, the chances of “forcing” a sale by boycotting attendance is unlikely!
funny thing about Change, it’s an activity that is freeflowing & can travel in 1 of 2 directions toward getting better or getting worse. The Braves are the most recent example of a franchise that’s gone from a competitive private owner(Ted Turner) to a series of Corporate Owners(worst kind imaginable) Time-Warner to Liberty Communications. Where Profits are the sole measuring stick with no regard for Ws or Ls, Titles or Championships.
tommy, keep dreaming, who is it u believe the ownership committe would approve as buyers for nym? they stalled cuban to death. they won’t allow another freewheeling big market team into the fray just to jackup thier costs. parady is the Selg theme or hadn’t u noticed. There aren’t any simple solutions outside of fans realizing our best additions came under Omar & he should be reinstated before it’s too late.
To the Wilpons:
My idea of a competitive team in NYC are the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers !!!
They team finished 13.5 games ahead in the National League pennant race, leading the league in both runs scored and fewest runs allowed. They had a pitcher who won 20 games and they had the MVP. My regrets are that Billy Cox, Preacher Roe and Joe Black were traded and didn’t play in the World Series.
In the World Series they whupped along side the head the hated Yankees in 7 games.
Ho hum. ‘Tis all I can say about this one.
No wonder Yankee (Besides other teams’) fans laugh at us!
Exactly.
I will say the same thing as I said just a minute ago. Escobar is a very good pitcher. Everyone is going to think he is not good because they never saw him pitch or they see that he didn’t sign for much money. he can reach 95,96 MPH with a good slider. he will do great in a setup role.
Likely, small potatoes.
If the potential dramatically exceeded the cost, other teams would have been beating a path to Escobar’s door.
I hope I’m wrong but history is on my side with these second and third tier signings.
We always hope we are wrong about these guys, but it is usually Omar who is wrong. No more reclamation projects. That is what small market teams look for.
Anyone know what Escobar’s contract is worth?
I’m just wondering why pay Ecosbar “x” amount when we could have had Putz and his cleaned out elbow for “x” dollars.
Just wondering how the numbers compare.
I Have always thought that you should take borderline starter types and make them one inning guys. The concept with Escobar is good. He is just damaged goods. But take your srtarting pitcher who will never make the top five (like Stokes) and the guy invariably has better stuff than most middle and set-up relievers. He should be able to get you three outs, once you can get him to accept the role. I prefer that approach to bringing in guys who have failed everywhere, or are washed up, or just plain old.
Wow, guys, for most of you I have a question? Weren’t the new york mets one of the teams favorite to win the WS in 2009 entering the season?!?
Look, I’m all for firing omar minaya, he should’ve been fire as soon as olli sign the ridiculous contract, but the fact is he’s here n we should wait n see what happens. What else us as fans can do? Don’t go to the games is the only solucion. We get reyes back, beltran, santana, there’s still good pitcher avalable out there, n bay n holliday r out there. Lets hope for the best guys
Alex, don’t rewrite history. Would you have made an intitial offer of 4y/60m to a 36 yr old non-ace sp? Unlikely; if Omar had u would’ve demanded his firing for ineptness. For that same sp would you propose countering with an offer in excess of 4/60? I certainly doubt it, I’ve read your postings & you aren’t insane. Now that we’ve established signing “Lowe was out of the question u r faced with a choice; Perez(who u just witnessed improving due to reinventing mechanics under new pc), Wolf(who no one seems to want longterm), Garland(a 30 yr old sp coming off a sub.500 season) Sheets( an oft-injured sp with a blown elbow). Alex, try to remember as few don’t, Perez was Omar’s 2nd choice with Lowe occupying the first choice position. a 3/36 offer to Lowe, a 36 yr old non ace, was a fair offer to anyone not represented by Scott Boras. Boras manipulated circumstaneces to beat us, fair & square. hats off to Boras.
Remember, we’re still with a huge hole in the rotation. Perez is an enigma, if he’d not discarded the Warthen changes & had not been injured in the WBC(all occurances totally unpredictable) u can’t fairly criticize a decision based upon 20/20 vision of an unperceivable circumstance. To be fair you can’t judge by “if you knew then what you know now…” rather the only fair question is, “if you knew now, only what u knew then…” based on that I’d still defend the Perez signing as a valid “gamble”, one not more risky than Garland, Wolf or Sheets. They were all gambles. Sheets being the riskiest of them all. BTW also rarely pointed out, Perez is the youngest of those gambles & as such is most likely to improve significantly. All I suggest everyone do is hope & pray Perez has a Castilloesque second yr of his contract.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many cite Perez as such a horrific signing when contextually it’s one of Omar’s oft cited signature “good deals” that proves to be so much more devastatinf(signing Pedro). Can anyone argue the historical significance a Healthy Pedro could have meant to ‘06 through ‘08? Pedro’s contract was a bigger gamble & much more harmful than Perez’. Alex hindsight id generally more valid if viewed honestly.
So far this off season we have acquired some catchers and some relief. What happened to the need of a good #2 starter and a good outfielder that can hit more than 20 hone runs? It’s obvious that Bay and Molina wants to play somewhere else besides Citifield. Give them a 24 hour deadline and move on to other players(hopefully there are some left!) that can help us. I am hoping for a Happy New Year.
Carol
This signing for me would have been better than the Cora signing cause with Escobar, Parnell, Green, Feliciano, Ryota in the mix for setup then you know that at least there will be some good arms to pick from and someone there if the choice for setup fails. You never have enough pitching and at the amount Escobar signed for it is a risk worth taking instead of, in my opinion, Cora whose spot could have been filled by a cheaper player and save the money to stack up in pitching.
If Mets go the route that apparently the Wilpons have put Omar on then I would sign a couple of pitchers, Garland, Washburn, Piniero, etc to 1 year contracts so that you have plenty of depth there.
This year Redding hurt himself trying to get in shape too fast plus he did pitch good in Sep.
Mets don’t need to be looking to spend whatever was saved by money coming off the books. We are not the Yanks plus Omar knows that he might need that extra payroll to take on another bat or pitcher during or after Spring Training when players are cut.
There are other times of the year to make a big splash but some fans want to compete with Yanks, Phillies on a major signing despite the harm it might cause the budget down the road. I agree with you Joe that a minor league contract with an invite would have been better but I can’t complain about this singing cause you never have enough arms in the BP, as previous years have shown.
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