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2010
2010 Mets Rotation: Not For The Squeamish
An article by Hojo's Mojo
While reading MetsBlog, I came across an interesting link in which Tim Dierkes of MLBTR compiled a pretty cool spreadsheet. Dierkes ranked this years projected opening day rotations based on how much each team has spent. It really is a unique way to look at things and I hope you visit them to see his entire list.
Surprisingly, the Mets who are obviously in desperate need of pitching help, have spent the fourth most money in the Majors. Here are the top ten big spenders.
- Yankees – $63,157,650
- Cubs – $50,775,000
- Red Sox – $42,263,500
- Mets – $38,087,500
- White Sox – $36,200,000
- Cardinals – $35,925,000
- Giants – $33,850,000
- Tigers – $32,670,000
- Phillies – $31,805,000
- Braves – $31,467,000
It almost makes you want to cry, huh? Oliver Perez will earn 50% more than Josh Johnson and the entire Florida Marlins rotation.
Here is the rotation that the Mets will boast this season along with their spring ERA’s including todays action.
1. Johan Santana – 6.75 ERA (Does not include todays minor league start 7 R, 5 IP)
2. Mike Pelfrey - 7.97 ERA
3. Oliver Perez - 8.66 ERA
4. John Maine – 7.94 ERA
5. Jon Niese – 5.65 ERA
Considering that the Mets have spent more than any other team in their division, where do you rank the Mets rotation in terms of projected 2010 performance?
Which NL East rotation do you believe is the best/worst?
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LMAO!!!
Is pathetic how our stupid ass gm gave perez 36 million per season!!!! That’s why even though we’re top 5 money wise in rotation we’re like top 10 in the worst in the NL.. is amazing how bad perez was for us, and after leading the league in WALKS in 2008 omar got fooled by boras and signed this piece of s***, and now we have to endure not only 2 more years of castillo, but also 2 more years of that garbage!!!!
12 million dollars for a #5, great job omar minaya!
Well as bad as that signing was, we should remember that Perez was actually the 2nd best pitcher in that FA year. It was him and Lowe. Its not like Lowe’s contract has worked out all that well either. Most fans were satisfied that we didnt overpay for a Piniero or Marquis, so I guess at the very least the team has learned a very hard lesson and will focus more on developing its younger arms instead of chasing after potentially overpriced FAs and risk another Perez disaster.
Shamik, the lowe signing was done becoz the braves needed to make that deal and they had to overpay for him after losing smoltz, nowthe perez deal was mindboggling to me and everyone, becoz the guy had no market after him!!
The noly team intersted was the cardinals and they offer like 2 years 15 million.. why overpaid for a bum who’s gonna walk the stadium?? Castillo was bad, perez signing was horrible!!!
Thanks minaya!!
Perez’s contract is 36 mil for three years. Not 36 mil a year.
Yeah, sorry my mistake..
36 million per 3 years for that piece of sh** is what I meant to say
Alez, let’s not rewrite history, that year it was aparrently obvious that the top 2 starters as F/A were well beyond our range(Sabathia & Burnett) the next best available & Omar’s #1 choice was 36yr old Lowe whom he offered 3y/36M; but was outbid in a Boras finesse situation by Atlanta’s preclusive 4Y/60M. That brought the Mets to their next choice, Ollie, whom arguably had more potential @ age 26 than the remaining candidates of Garland,Wolf,etc., Boras already knew how much pitching money Omar had in his wallet and could holdout for it. Remember, just 1Y earlier Boras beat the Mets in their arbitration case
COTS records the arbi case for Ollie as,won in arbitration with NY Mets 2/22/08 ($6.5M-$4.725M). Arbitration hearings are an anathema to Fred. Simple fact it happened indicates the Mets had a truer evaluation of Ollie than Scott would accept.
Ollie nmost certainly was a gamble that we unfortunately lost. Personally, though I totally agree it was a deal, we’ve regretted as not a good or decent signing, I’m perplexed at your need to revisit it as if somerthing could change. Try looking at the bright side, it’s one bad pitching deal at least we haven’t a Pavano & Igawa scenerio simultaneously.
I’m sorry, but it doesn’t look good at all. Even Santana is doing bad. Don’t let them fool yah…. his elbow is not 100%. Hitting and defence looks good though.
We shall find out soon whether ST means anything or not, since i couldn’t have had nightmares to match the performance of our starting rotation this Spring.
johan gave up 7 runs in today’s minor league game? wtf im starting to get worried about him.
This is horrifying. I think if had told us at the end of last season that our rotation at the beginning of the next season would be averaging an ERA of 7, I think there would have been quite a few fans shooting themselves in the head.
Yea… I’m not sure if any of u actually know but… THESE NUMBERS DON’T MEAN A THING. If we have the same issues after april, then there is cause for concern but personally I could care less about ST numbers. They mean nothing after Saturday! If its a problem after april then u take the necesarry steps to find replacements for these guys, but its too early to worry. U want to see these guys finish strong but that’s doesn’t mean good or bad ST numbers translate into good numbers when the year starts.
I’M EXCITED BASEBALL IS BACK! The season starts with johan on Monday and I can’t wait cuz all ur going to see for ERA, IP, WINS, LOSSES, ECT. IS 0.
Right, it doesn’t mean a thing ‘officially’, but it’s all we have to go on after last year’s disaster. As i’ve said, we shall soon find out whether ST is ‘indicative’ of ‘real-time’ performance, or not.
I know these pitchers are professional and should not need instruction BUT a pitching coach should be there to address flaws or issues. I have no confidence in DAN WARTHEN. He did not have a clue what to do last year when there were issues and it is continuing this spring. Doing something is better than nothing!! Just saying everything will be OK is not enough.There is something wrong when all of the pitching staff looks HORRIBLE. Thank You Omar your loyalties are hurting this team. It is time for a change even if it is just for change!!
Rich
Still want to rush Mejia to the Majors by putting him in the bullpen? For what? To clean up the messes left behind by these guys. Give him a full year as a starter in AAA. If he’s all we think he could be we just might have a terrific starting pitcher to add to Johan next year and who knows, if Neise shows something and Pelfrey bounces back we could finally have a real starting pitching staff next year. How about adding Beckett, Lee, Webb, Bonderman or Vazquez to this group? Right when the Phillies have to start really spending to keep their team intact we could turn the tables on them with a rotation like this. Then perhaps Thole/Barajas, Davis, Tejada/Havens, Reyes, Wright, Bay, Beltran, and Martinez/Francouer with Murphy, Pagan, Adam Everitt and Pridie or Endy on the bench. There is hope guys, it’s just for 2011 not 2010. Lets not blow it by hoping for something that is about as likely as Jeff Wilpon becoming the GM of the Nippon Ham Fighters.