28 January, 2009

Is Pedro Coming Back?

SI reports that Omar Minaya has stated his interest in bringing back former Met Pedro Martinez. Pedro went 5-6 last year with a 5.61 ERA, and had trouble in the first in inning, and getting to the fifth.
TBD Spin
I commented earlier about the Mets spending their money on one-year deal type guys, and Pedro would certainly be [...]

28 January, 2009

Wednesday Headlines

A lot of news, features, and opinions out there today. Let’s get to them.

A deal with Oliver Perez seems to be imminent. NJ.com reports the two are still far apart, but the Mets are now willing to up their offer. I speculate the final numbers will be around four-years, $48 million.
One pitcher the Mets were [...]

28 January, 2009

Small Free Agent Signings

Mets Geek looked at all the small things Omar Minaya has done this off-season to shore up the Mets bench, making the case that small amounts of money were wasted on a lot of players, equaling a lot of wasted money. 
Tim Redding, Freddy Garcia, Alex Cora, and Cory Sulivan cost the Mets $6.35 million according to Cot’s [...]

28 January, 2009

What’s Dunn is Dunn

Howard Megdal and Konstantin Medvedovsky wrote this piece in The Perpetual Post talking about the undervaluing/overvaluing of Adam Dunn. Dunn’s value has dropped to around $5 million a year, and maybe for just one year.
Here is what I think:

If the Mets knew Dunn was going to be available for so cheap, they should have bought out Carlos Delgado and [...]