Oh my, no joke, I just did some math in my head and was like “holy cow are the Mets five back already???!!!” Â Yes they are.
Here’s the problem with the Mets and we all knew it all winter long. Â They don’t have starting pitching. Â This week has been complicated by losing on Santana Day. Â When you lose on Santana Day it’s going to be a long week.
Let me preview the next few days for you.
Mike Pelfrey. Â Are you confident he’ll stop the bleeding?
If he doesn’t – Ollie Perez. Â Confident?
On Saturday Santana will throw a perfect game….
…and then Maine, Niese, Pelfrey & Perez.
Everyone but Omar seemed to know it…or Omar knew it too and didn’t have the wallet.
I’m pretty confident in Pelfrey throwing a good game tonight, yes.
You never know with Perez, and I worry that the stupid tinkering that Warthen did with Maine was also a failure for Perez, but I think the Mets will have a chance to win the game tomorrow when he pitches.
Santana due to bounce back and win one.
then Maine, who I think gets a huge boost being out from under Warthen’s shackles. Doesn’t mean he’ll be successful though, especially the first time going back to what’s worked for him, but the numbers are there if you choose to believe. I’m hoping being able to be comfortable will be like a weight off his shoulder and he’ll do just fine.
Maybe they drop one of those, go home for a 10 game home stand where if they go 6-4 they’re back at .500 and go to PHiladelphia, a park the Mets love to hit in with hopefully the offense finally clicking, and knock the ball, and 2009, out of the park.
Jason Bay is worthless and a waste of a contract. I honestly don’t even know why they bothered signing him, other than thinking it would draw fans. Does he draw enough fans to offset their having to overpay for him? I don’t think so. If your pitchers give up 10 each night, it doesn’t matter if Babe Ruth is on the field. It’s not even just starting pitching though. The Mets have no long relief for the starting failures throughout the year.
For fans, I always dont take them serious if they are way too positive or way too negative. Plainly Mets are a .500 team even when (and if Beltran) comes back.
There should be no surprise about there starting 4 behind Santana. Mets cut payroll in the 2nd season in a new park and when their cross town team won a World Series. Wilpon left Omar to live with the contracts he gave Ollie and Casillo and those contracts are killing the team.
June 1, if 10 games out, get Ike, Thole up here. Plus any young pitchers with some promise.
And beware, Yanks would very well win at least 6 world series in this decade. So Mets need to step it up in the younger players and better free agents. I do think Bay will be fine.
Beyond Santana, the pitching drifts between mediocre and scary, but the more glaring problem right now is the offense. The pitching’s not really surprising, but how is this lineup only scoring 3 runs fewer in exactly half of its games?
It’s easy to pick on the pitching, but Niese’s last start easily could’ve been a win, and even with Perez’s god-awful start, the team only allowed 4 runs in that game. Win those 2, and you’re at .500 at least.
Is this a championship rotation? Heck no. But such as it is, it should still be adequate to keep the team from falling 5 games behind in a little over a week.
*3 runs OR fewer