Courtesy of mlbtraderumors.com:
"Ken Davidoff of Newsday lays out the Mets' plans for their starting rotation. For Oliver Perez's slot, the Mets want to either re-sign Perez or sign Derek Lowe. Randy Wolf, Jon Garland, and possibly Tim Redding are the backup plans to these two.
The fifth starter job has sparked an internal debate - it could be given to Jon Niese, or the Mets could bring in competition with pitchers like Bartolo Colon, Freddy Garcia, or Eric Milton. This decision will not be made this month."
Personally, I'd like to see Ollie or Lowe (I doubt we've got the cash for both--that would be 1st choice) and Redding. I've seen him pitch a few times and he's got some good stuff. I'm not crazy about Wolf and I think we'd have to trade to get Garland.
Colon, Garcia, and Milton are trash-heap guys and we all witnessed how well that's worked the last few seasons. Niese should get a shot but I'd rather have a bit more experience there this year...
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Adding Lowe would be awesome, although mgmt seemed to indicate that with the signing of both k-rod and putz that was off the table since d lowe's contract would be too much money.
Especially now that the wilpons took a bath in the madoff ponzi scheme, although they're claiming that this won't affect the Mets or CitiField in any way. We'll see..
I agree with DC on colon and garcia, they are garbage time. If we pick up those re-treads my crystal ball into the future of next season is looking pretty good.
Update (again from mlbtraderumors.com):12:20pm: MLB.com's Marty Noble writes:
"The possibility of the Mets signing a lesser alternative isn't precluded, but the club is unlikely to act on picking up another starter until it's satisfied it has done all that is possible -- and financially feasible -- to bring in Lowe.
Noble says the Mets sense Lowe's price tag is $16-17MM per year."
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