By David Rubin
Putting aside my obvious fan bias, if I were an agent for a pitcher coming off of an injury, in need of proving that I was healthy, I'd push my clients on the Mets for a drastically reduced price in order to pad stats for another run at free agency in 2012. That means that the names we've been hearing recently, Chris Young, Jeff Francis and Brandon Webb, should be lining up to rehab their image by pitching at spacious CitiField for a season, now that their injuries are allegedly rehabbed as well. It sure worked for the Rangers and Vlad Guerrero in 2010- putting a hitter into a hitter's ballpark, especially one in which he had great prior success. Look, no one wants to hear that they aren't valued as much as they value themselves, but if you're a pitcher coming off of major injury, as a number of veterans are, padding your stats in New York, on the largest stage there is, for less money in the short-term in exchange for a larger, future payday shouldn't be an issue. It's certainly not for the millions of "regular folk" who have taken far less then they're used to making in order to simply be employed during these tough times. Good strategy is good strategy- let's hope Sandy, Paul, JP & company can convince some of these players that this is sound strategy...
Putting aside my obvious fan bias, if I were an agent for a pitcher coming off of an injury, in need of proving that I was healthy, I'd push my clients on the Mets for a drastically reduced price in order to pad stats for another run at free agency in 2012. That means that the names we've been hearing recently, Chris Young, Jeff Francis and Brandon Webb, should be lining up to rehab their image by pitching at spacious CitiField for a season, now that their injuries are allegedly rehabbed as well. It sure worked for the Rangers and Vlad Guerrero in 2010- putting a hitter into a hitter's ballpark, especially one in which he had great prior success. Look, no one wants to hear that they aren't valued as much as they value themselves, but if you're a pitcher coming off of major injury, as a number of veterans are, padding your stats in New York, on the largest stage there is, for less money in the short-term in exchange for a larger, future payday shouldn't be an issue. It's certainly not for the millions of "regular folk" who have taken far less then they're used to making in order to simply be employed during these tough times. Good strategy is good strategy- let's hope Sandy, Paul, JP & company can convince some of these players that this is sound strategy...
1 comment:
That's a good idea.
The Mets could give them temporary quarters... say, a locker over where the metal scrap yards used to be... or they could shuttle back and forth on a golf cart from one of travel agencies along Roosevelt Ave. that specialize in one way trips to nations that don't recognize the US extradition treaty.
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