Joe D over at MetsMerized Online wonders if Braves starter Javier Vazquez has become expendible, and if so, it might be worth it for the Mets to look into acquiring him.
Vazquez just completed his tenth consecutive season in which he has made 30 starts, and finished the year 15-10 with a 2.87 ERA in 219 1/3 innings pitched.
…Vazquez had an outstanding season this year, no doubt about it… i have always liked him and when he was with the Expos i remember hoping that the Mets would avoid him when they played them…he is a durable and dependable pitcher which is something the Mets really didn’t have at all this past season…
Vazquez is entering the final year of a three year contract and is due to earn $11.5 million in 2010.
…trading intra-division is always tricky, even though the Mets and Braves made the Ryan Church for Jeff Francoeur swap this past summer…i would think the Braves would want more than the Mets would be willing to give for a high-priced, mid 30s pitcher who has more or less a .500 record for his career…
For more on this and Joe’s analysis of the Braves rotation for next season, check out MetsMerized Online.
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This sounds great:
“made 30 starts, and finished the year 15-10 with a 2.87 ERA in 219 1/3 innings pitched”
This, for some reason, does not:
“Javier Vasquez”
javier vasquez sounds a lot better than oliver perez…how did the braves get both vasquez and lowe last year and we ended up with perez…the phillies got cliff lee without giving up their premiere prospects to boot….ay yi yi…it seems like some teams mgmts are more on the ball than others…and no one is responsible except for maybe a third base coach (not that he didnt suck too)…
“the phillies got cliff lee without giving up their premiere prospects to boot”
kinda like how we got Santana without giving up our top prospects?
Also, the reason why the Braves got Vazquez and Lowe is b/c they overpaid for Lowe. That’s part of the reason they are now trying to dump him.
And how about the Braves getting Jair Jurrjens for the corpse of Edgar Renteria?
I would take Vazquez in a hearbeat to be on the staff.
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