But notice that young pre-law/med student (remember Tim Matheson asked “what’s the dfference?”) did not limit himself to those in the medical profession? If nothing more, he can try suing the media for libel by associating his client with injury – Otter would! LOL

Don’t you think that in this world of blood sucking, ambulance chasing and vampires who call themselves lawyers it would have been done already if possible?

Next!

really poor timing from his standpoint though (as it impacts his wallet!). Since at best, you are going to get a couple months of semi-rehab starts out of him, and he will spend 1/2 the season in real rehab, and at the end of the year he hits FA, no team is going to invest much.

so, really only 2 options I see if you want him:

sign a multi-year deal at a low base salary, with incentives for 2014+, and effectively “write off” 2013.

sign him to a MiL deal of some sort, let him rehab, and hope you get something out of him (basically what Young is doing now), knowing that he can walk at the end of the year, so that you may end up paying for his rehab for nothing.

I would suspect Sandy would certainly offer the 2nd, but other teams would too. No clue if a team really wants the first option, or even if Boras would go for it. If not, the risk to Pelf is he never makes it back and gets nothing else.

We can guess that part of his problem last season might have been in his mechanics of the year before, compensating for less dependency on his shoulder by placing more on his elbow and the effect it had in 2011. Understand the business aspect of all this and do hope the Mets and him can reach a new agreement for next spring. If Sandy has given so many chances to an older and more often injured Chris Young, he can certainly do the same for a much younger Mike. The amount of money needed to re-sign him would not put the Mets back in the frivolous mode.