Read: Whose Bullpen isn’t their Achilles heel
In a report for Newsday, Ken Davidoff takes a closer look at the team’s bullpen following last night’s win, which, despite pitching quite well, may be the team’s ‘Achilles heel,’ as Davidoff puts it.
…i agree…it’s just, i suspect it is more or less every team’s Achilles heel, you know what i mean…
For instance, at his blog for the New York Post yesterday, Joel Sherman wrote the following:
“Sometimes in New York we get so parochial about our teams that we
forget others have problems, too, including those in the same division. Atlanta, for example, is off to a 3-6 start…their first five losses this season were by one run and they are 37-62 in one-run games since the beginning of the 2006 campaign. When I saw Atlanta GM Frank Wren in spring training, he was confident the club had finally fixed those longstanding pen issues. The initial read is that is probably not correct. Atlanta relievers are 0-4 with a 6.00 ERA and a major league-high six homers allowed.”
…to me, just because every one else has a shaky bullpen doesn’t justify having one in new york…however, i can accept the reality that it will be a long season with these guys, and that i should expect them to repeatedly make me upset, a lot, during the year…i get that…my hope, instead, is that Omar Minaya moves fast…to me, that’s what is most important…signing a starter-reliever like Claudio Vargas, quickly putting Matt Wise on the disabled list and promoting Carlos Muniz, signing guys – any guy – to minor-league deals to increase depth while limiting how tight the cuffs are on being able to jockey men up and down from Triple-A to Shea and back for flexibility…this is what the Rockies did so well last year…it’s Bullpen 2.0 for major-league baseball…and i hope omar is with the program…
…by the way, according to davidoff, Young MC’s Bust a Move played in the Mets locker room following last night’s win…to which i say, ‘Bravo,’ to whomever controls the boom-box…
…and yes, i said boom-box…long live the 80s…
