Starting Pitcher: Mets could have had Marquis
Yesterday, in the Chicago Sun-Times, Gordon Wittenmyer said the Cubs could look to trade Jason Marquis, while eating up to $4 million of his roughly $10 million salary, according to team insiders.
According to Dan Graziano, in the Star-Ledger, the Mets could have traded Aaron Heilman for Marquis, “But the Mets passed on the deal because they were trying to use Heilman in other deals (for bullpen help) and because they didn’t think Marquis was better than what they have in their projected 2009 rotation.”
…i actually think they’re playing this correctly, so far…from what i understand, the plan is to use heilman, marketed as a starting pitcher, in a deal to get a set-up man, like Huston Street, while retaining other prospects to use in a deal for a new starting pitcher, should the free-agent market dry up…
Graziano continues on to write about the team’s current starting rotation, and how they may go about adding to it for 2009.
