Oh No, Why K-Rod Can’t Come To Flushing

Anyone remember how much Franco was despised…(don’t believe the revisionist history)….yeah he’d save the game after walking two guys and getting a double play.   Well, I’m trying to write ahead this week so I can travel – and I saw this in the Sunday Post.

K-Rod did set the season record with 62 saves in 2008. But one Mets official had this insight: “When it comes to statistics, we are not basing this decision on save totals; at least not save totals alone.” The Mets will honor, among other items, strikeout-to-walk ratio and on-base percentage against.

And I came across this stat just out of curiosity: Rodriguez registered 1-2-3 frames in a career-low 29.2 percent of his innings (all figures courtesy of Elias). That ranked 151st out of 253 pitchers who worked at least 60 innings in 2008. Fuentes (41.3) was 13th, Wood (38.1) was 28th, Street (38.0), even with diminished stuff, was 29th, and another free agent, Brandon Lyon (37.7) was 31st.

Can you imagine K-Rod getting “all that money” (and I don’t care about money this year, the Mets have it) and then putting someone on base 70% of the time.  He’d be the new Doug Sisk.  Bummer, I was hoping they got him but then again I’m just a pop-off blogger and not a full-time GM.