ESPN’s Rob Neyer gets it.
One, there’s a really, really good reason why nobody’s leaping at the chance to offer Pedro a Smoltz-type contract: Smoltz won 14 games in 2007; Pedro has won 17 games in 2006, 2007, and 2008 combined.
Two, there seems to be zero interest from 29 teams and a small amount of interest from one. The Mets are not interested, and you can hardly blame them after flushing $41 million down the toilet over the last three years. Yes, the Mets shouldn’t concern themselves with a sunk cost, but that’s easy for us to say; they’re the ones who had to watch an expensive mistake every day for three years.