-the Mets continue to pitch Oliver Perez as a starter in the lower-end Mexican league. That’s right, the bad Mexican League. Is there a good Mexican league? Exactly what is the deal here? Have him come to pitchers/catchers with 5000 innings under his belt, burn out the arm, stick him on the IR for 2011, and create an opening for a new lefty? What would you do for $11mil? I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t do.
-don’t you think it would be a good time to name a minor league pitching head, to replace the departed Rick Waits. There’s , what, 48 days left to pitchers/catchers. Wouldn’t it take that long to watch all the tape?
-word seems to be that Brad Holt is going to be given another shot at an SP slot in 2001, probably at the AA level, The problem is, there already is five guys slotted there, with five more backed up at St. Lucie. Details at 11. Still, Holt easily has the God given talent to be more successful than most of the guys in the AAA/AA rotations. You can’t teach tools and Holt has them. He has pro-like velo and movement to boot. Let’s keep a candle lit.
Lastly, I saw that P Brian Bannister signed with the Tokyo Giants of the Nippon Progfessional Baseball League. Brian was a 7th round draft pick of the Mets in 2003 that I remember had a so-so career at USC and impressed very little for the first couple of years in the Mets system. Then came 2005 with AA-Binghamton and with it stats of 9-4, 2.56, 1.08, 18-starts, 1-CG, and 94-Ks in 109-IP. The B-Mets rotation that year was all about Bannister and a 20-year old Yusmeiro Petit (9-3, 2.91) and we all thought we had two keepers for a long time. Add to that another exciting 20-year old that batted .337, by the name of Lastings Milledge. Boy, we had things really figured out back then, didn’t we?
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