Read: The Fifth Starter
At his blog for the New York Post, Joel Sherman writes that it is too early to crown Freddy Garcia as the fifth starter.
Sherman notes:
“The early read in camp is that Garcia is still tight and not fully unleashing his surgically repaired right arm yet. Maybe he is just conserving bullets or going slowly in a long camp or still has some doubt in the back of his head.”
“But it would not surprise me at all if Livan Hernandez ended up the No. 5 starter.”
On February 13th, Metsblog noted that Garcia said he expects to be in the team’s starting rotation, adding, “Otherwise, I’ll pitch some place else.”
…not that it makes me very excited, but my gut is rooting for garcia to return to his pre-injury form…between garcia, redding if healthy, livan, and niese it should be quite the battle, although i suspect they will all get a shot to start at some point this season…
