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Adam Rubin of the Daily News is reporting that Orlando Hernandez has opted for surgery on his right big toe which could end his career.
The 38-year-old previously resisted the procedure because the recovery time would cost him a full season.
In 47 games (44 starts) as a Met, El Duque recorded 18 wins while striking out 240 batters in 264 innings pitched.
Though this is about to be full of “good riddance” posts, I want to make sure there’s at least one sympathetic one. I wish he’d been a Met 10 years earlier, that weird leg kick is awesome, he was fun and funky like the best Mets are, which made him stand out all the more on the bland Yankees. He belonged in Queens the whole time. So it goes.
What he said!
maybe we can hike up those ticket prices some more and sign his brother next year to a 4 year deal like castillo has now. then he too can hit the DL 5 times, make 3 starts all year, and retire with the METS , and our, guaranteed ticket money.
some of these FA signings are turning out to be retirement bonus packages, a thanks for not playing for us offer.
Livan isn’t really injury-prone. In fact, he is quite durable. He is just completely washed up. So we wouldn’t even be fortunate enough to have him miss time on the DL. He’d always be around to stink it up for us. :)
On the bright side, though, he’d been another option as a pinch-hitter!
Right on!
Hey, it turned out to be a bust of a deal (re-signing Duque for 2 years after he was here for a couple of months after a trade), but he was good for us on those rare occasions he pitched. And, since he was on the DL so much, insurance should have paid for most of his salary, so it didn’t really hurt the Mets. Perhaps it hurt them in the sense that they were wary of going after other starters, because they weren’t sure if Duque would return and, so, they might not have room for another starter on the roster, but it didn’t appear to–and given his relatively modest salary, I would doubt it did.
And I agree, Geoff–Duque was wasted on that personality-less team known as the Yankees.
I have to disagree…no way that deal is a bust. even with him missing the playoffs in 06 and the end of last year, where would the Mets rotation have been those two years without him (especially in ‘06…Jose Lima?? ugghh).
Jorge Julio was horrendous, so it was a miracle they got anything close to El Duque for him.
Check my comment…I didn’t say the trade was a bust, I said the 2-year contract after 2006 was.
I agree the team would likely have been done a lot sooner in 2007 than they were, if not for Duque’s pitching for the time he did, but he could’ve done that with a 1-year contract (or 1-year plus an option), too. Granted, I never expected him to miss this entire season, but I’m not exactly shocked.
I’m sad to see El Duque go. He was a great Omar pickup that only cost Jorge Who?-lio. He was such a huge part of 2006, and he was so entertaining with his unique style.
He was also our best starter in 2007 before he got hurt. If he was healthy, a big if, 2006 and 2007 may have had different endings.
There is no doubt he COULD have been great. He just wasn’t because he was so old and got hurt all of the time. Hence, he does not get any praise for his career in a Mets uniform
Maybe you won’t praise him but I think most Met fans are smart enough and gracious enough to know that he settled the rotaion in 06 and pitched fine baseball for a good part of ‘07. He deserves praise,
Thanks, El Duque. You were entertaining, and much beloved. See you around.
Great career. Thanks for 07. See ya duke
And this is relevant news to the ‘08 Mets because?
B/c he’s on the roster and was supposed to be one of our starters.
lol
Since you are the only one blasting ElDuque do you think repeating the same ignorant comments will win over somebody? If we’re lucky your fingers will be injured and you’ll have to stop for several years.
good riddance to a player who was never there. awful acquisition for omar - cost us the postseason in 2006. i will not miss his absenteeism. the only good thing was getting rid of jorge julio
how was he an awful acquisition? he cost us nothing in jorge julio
how was he NOT an awful acquisition? 18 wins in 3 years? If you started Jorge Julio (and he is awful) he could get you that.
I do not get why everyone loves this hack. He did NOTHING for us. He won some games - great. But when it counted he was always injured. Maybe that was why he was traded for another awful player in Julio?
Wow, you are clueless.
Bye El Duque. You didn’t have a great career as a met, but we deffinately will miss you.
you are the only one who will
I’ll miss him, and I agree with Aflac, you are clueless.
you are clueless if you think he was a great Met. Face it - we got him at the sunset of his career when he was too hurt to ever contribute more than half a season
Aflac:
Deffinately?
Does that mean won’t? I’ve never seen that word.
Add me to the list of fans who will miss him.
Given the comments here, it seems pretty clear that you shouldn’t be speaking for all Mets fans, das2ble. Thanks in advance for your cooperation!
I never said that I was.
Your comment above, at 11:49:41, tells Aflac Sucks that he is the only one who will miss Duque. So speaking for everyone else was exactly what you were doing.
I disagree. When two people are having a conversation, and one of them tells the other one that “you are the only one who will miss him”, then that is exactly what it means. Not me. I won’t. If you do, then great for you.
Notice how I did not say, “Out of all Mets fans, you are the only one who will miss him.
Except you *weren’t* having a conversation with one other person. You posted a comment on the internet.
Care to try again?
Yeah, nice spin attempt there, das2ble, but we ain’t buying it. And by “we,” I do not mean you and me. If you honestly think that’s what “you are the only one” means in this (or any) context, you’ve got to stop using that phrase, since (in the immortal words of Inigo Montoya), “I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
“Inconceivable!” Heh-heh. One of the best comedies ever! Great reference!
I quit. Talk about jumping all over a guy for voicing his opinion.
I should have just written he sucks and be done with it.
I only speak for myself, but it seems other people here agree with me.
Go have fun creating murals and shrines for the guy!
El Duque was awesome. He almost had a sub-.200 BAA for righties. Take out his handful of blow-up starts and he was absolutely dominant most of the time. People who bitch about El Duque should eat some knives.
You are absolutely crazy. It does not matter what his BAA was because he was not around! 18 wins in 3 years? Are you serious? This guy is terrible. Maybe you love him so much because you liked him as a YANKEE. No doubt he was dominant there, but as a Met he was always hurt.
go away