18
2011
Mets Officially Announce Frank Francisco Signing
An article by Hojo's Mojo
The New York Mets today announced the club has signed free agent right-handed pitcher Frank Francisco to a two-year contract.
Francisco, 32, went 1-4 with 17 saves and a 3.55 ERA (20 earned runs/50.2 innings) in 54 games with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011. The 6-2, 250-pounder issued 18 walks and had 53 strikeouts. He converted all seven save opportunities and posted a 1.37 ERA (four earned runs/26.1 innings) after the All-Star break. Francisco hurled 16.0 scoreless innings from July 22-Sept. 5.
The Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, native has appeared in 50 or more games in each of the last five years. He was 6-4 with two saves and a 3.76 ERA (22 earned runs/52.2 innings) with 60 strikeouts while helping the Texas Rangers advance to the World Series in 2010.
Francisco set a career-high with 25 saves in 2009 with Texas. He ranks fifth among American League relievers with 302 strikeouts over the last five years (2007-2011).
He is 18-19 with 49 saves and a 3.72 ERA (138 earned runs/334.0 innings) with 368 strikeouts in 331 games with Texas and Toronto during his seven-year major league career.
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He lost the closer job so I wonder if he bounces back and shows he can do it again.
I can’t quibble too much with this signing as at least he has an era under 4 (a rare signing for us!)
But you have to wonder what the point is in spending money on a closer who is tantamount to eye wash cause there is no reason to believe he will even gets save opportunities at all to add to his record.
“Eye wash” – I’ve heard Sandy mention that word before. I agree with you though, a $12 million dollar investment on a guy who may or may not be able to bounce back as a closer is a lot of money for a team that has so little of it.
Well whats worse is that 12 Mil is about what it would have taken to add to reyes’ salary from last year and that would contribute to EVERY game not just the ones where we seem to have a lead that could be blown by a guy who lost the closing job someplace else.
But I guess you can say it’s only 6 Mil per year, still halfway there to keeping reyes!
Reyes would at least maintain some better attendance and play everyday!
fixing attendance is the key to financial issues going away not lower payroll! We still stand to lose about 40 Mil even without Reyes, Beltran and K-Rod!