I blogged about it all year and caught lots of grief from my name-calling, but it looks like Pedro-bashing is catching on. People are starting to realize that Pedro did nothing after June 6, 2006 – something I first mentioned in this post and about 100 other times since….but enough about me, I’m just a fat dopey blogger. How about the take of a respected journalist:
Here’s an excerpt from Bob Klapisch on Espn.com
Mets didn’t get their money’s worth with Pedro
Fern Cuza might be talking a good game for his client, but the Mets aren’t about to forget how quickly their investment in Pedro dried up, especially this past September. He went 0-3 while the Mets were being caught and passed by the Phillies, ending the season with a 5-6 record, the first sub.-500 campaign in a full season of his career, and a 5.61 ERA.
Plucking away Martinez was an enormous public-relations coup, but today the Mets’ hierarchy admits Pedro fell short of their expectations. “We thought we’d get three [good] years from him,” one senior official said. “Turns out we got 2½.”
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After going 15-8 in his first season with the Mets, Pedro Martinez went just 17-15 over the past three.
Even that’s a generous assessment, considering Martinez spent long stretches on the disabled list in each of his past three seasons with the Mets. Pedro was terrific in 2005, winning 15 games, striking out 208 and posting a league-leading 0.95 WHIP. His dominance rolled over into early 2006, when he was 5-1 through May, allowing just 39 hits in 71 innings. But then came the first of two stints on the DL that season, and the old Pedro never returned.
The entire piece is a good read.
Meanwhile there are always Pedro Apologists like this guy. (below)