Mets demoted Sosa and Figueroa, and are trying to trade Sosa (who would want him?). Pagan is hurt and sent to the DL. Wise, Vargas, and TATIS! are back with the big league club. F Tat will make us forget about Gotay yet--you just wait and see.
I'm soooooo very pleased that Omar dropped the loony story he was floating to the league that he was going to drop Joe Smith to the minors once Wise came back--I'm sure that was just to avoid letting on that Sosa was a minor league player now, and taking any chance of a trade off the table.
And by the way, what's with the velocity of our releivers? Sanchez is topping out at 88, and Wise was topping out at 83 tonight. That ain't gonna get it done. Scho and Smith continue to get the job done. I feel like I haven't seen Feliciano pitch in a month. What is that guy in witness protection or something? And Wagner continues to be lights out, despite the roughh outing the other night brought on by the olde fielding error.
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I'm not sure about swapping Figueroa for Claudio Vargas. Vargas' career #s are no better than Figueroa, the only advantage he has is more experience. I'd rather give Fig a chance and see what he can do; I hate the constant musical chairs we play with our rotation and lineup.
Sosa historically is no good; the streak he had last year in minors that carried into start of majors was an unusual fluke. He should be gone.
I doubt Wise is totally over his injury, and I guarantee Sanchez is still injured too. My best guess is that sometime before the All-Star break that's going to bite us in the ass, with Sanchez suffering an injury to his arm as he tries to compensate. Probably be on DL for 4-6 weeks.
I expect no contributions from Duque this year, and Pedro probably won't be better than a #3 when he comes back. I infer that he is going to be very tentative based on some comments he made the other day, where he seemed truly surprised and concerned that he had injured his leg.
We didn't have a choice. We had to bring up a starter b/c of the double-header the other night.
Figgy's a guy we all want to root for, but let's face it--there's a reason he's 34 and still trying to break into the league. He's a marginal big-leaguer at best, and after his first two great starts, he's been terrible since.
Here's his numbers over the last 4 starts:
20 1/3 IP, 27 H, 17 BB, 12K, 17 R, 15 ER, 6.64 ERA
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