I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…

This is from today’s Boston Herald. Mets best hope at this point is if neither the Yankees or Red Sox sweeten their packages. From what I read, neither will. So I think he may just start the season with the Twins and maybe they offer him at the trade deadline, and maybe they won’t. But as long as neither the Red Sox or Yankees are clear leaders in this sweepstakes, the Mets chances are good.

So yeah, I think it is possible for them to do OK even without a huge trade fro a top SP.

A nice mid level guy like Snell though would be very nice.

That was more my point toward the trade propsoals of sending Pelfrey, Humber and Mulvey for Santana.

As soon as Duque goes down (and he will) or god forbid Pedros blows up (or of course Santatna!), who do you call on?

Yup, Chan Ho, Freddie Gacrcia, Brian Lawrence. etc.,

I don’t think they should start the year with Pelfrey and Humber in the rotation. I also don’t want to hit June with Livan and Lawrence.

It kills me that the entire Winter Meetings was spent obsessing over basically two pitchers, Johan and Bedard. I mean that is all you read anywhere. Yesterday, Matt posted some impressive stats from the past few days, and I don’t remember what the number of posts were, and the word count, but, would it be safe to say that at least 25% of it was Johan driven?

The most ironic part of all is that he landed with neither the Yankees, Bosox, or Mets. In fact, will he even land anywhere else but Minny? Who Knows? Who cares? I’m just weary of the whole Santana situation.

On another note, one of the things I heard mentioned a couple of times was the Brewers entertaining offers for Sheets. Who knows if it was fact or fiction, but if I am Omar I would certainly take a gander. He oozes with talent, but his injury risk could make him low-priced. Of course, that’s if he is even available at all.

Ahhh… rumors…. you gotta love them, but sometimes they make you want to go ARGHHHHH!

I’ll add one more thing…. last year we played the majority of the season with no Castillo, no Pedro, no Milledge, no Alou, a terrible Delgado, an unproductive LoDuca and a mostly unproductive RF in Shawn Green.

This year….Church is more likely to produce more than Green.

This year…Castillo is here for the whole season (and 3 more after that…ugh)

This year….we have Pedro for likely the entire season

This year….we have Alou…..CHECK THAT..INJURY STILL LIKELY TO COME AND REQUIRE MONTHS OF DL TIME

Schneider is at least better defensively than LoDuca and the plan is to use Castro more frequently than in the past.

We should really be better than last year for a host of reasons….at least offensively and in some spots with the pitching.