Blog: Santana, Wright and the Jeff Wilpon Era
The Brooklyn Met Fan asks, “Have we officially entered the Jeff Wilpon Era?”
In a post to Amazin’ Avenue, Eric Simon reveals his site’s community projection for Johan Santana, who they believe will go 19–6 with a 2.71 ERA with 240 strike outs.
Speaking of Santana, at Mets Geek, Dan Scotto looks back at the off-season Market Shifts for Santana, such as on December 4, when Will Carroll wrote the following in Baseball Prospectus…
“Santana to the Red Sox is all but done. Jon Lester, a center fielder, Justin Masterson and Ryan Kalish are the package.”
…for what it’s worth, to will’s credit, people connected to santana were all but certain that johan was heading to Boston that day as well…i mean, they were essentially packing his bags…the same thing happened a few weeks later, as well…but that was it…in hindsight, to me, both events were strictly designed to smoke out Phil Hughes, which never ended up happening…thankfully…
In a post to his blog for the New York Times, Ben Shpigel lists Reason No. 4,782 as to why it is good to be David Wright.
Speaking of Wright, check out Rob Neyer’s blog for ESPN.com.
…wright clearly understands that all politics is local…
