Jon Heyman (and Andrew Barragrly) have reported that San Francisco has brought back Ramon Ramirez on a minor league deal, one year after trading him to the Mets for Angel Pagan (who they just resigned to a 4 year/$40M contract). The Giants also brought back Andres Torres, the other player in the Pagan deal, so that trade is officially a bust. But it really was necessary because Pagan was feeling too much pressure here in New York and was showing that he was never going to be able to accomplish what he did last year in SF here in NY.
While Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Report has reported that Miami has signed Jon Rauch to a one year deal. Sandy Alderson talked to the media a few days ago and said that if the Brandon Lyon deal went through he would be done with adding bullpen arms… Personally i felt that if we resigned Rauch along with Lyon we would have one of the better bullpens in the league, minus the whole closer situation of course…. But assuming Lyon is on board, the ‘pen is still much improved again assuming the older veterans havent lost everything. All of these moves were much needed because we were definitely relying too much on untested young arms. 5 days till Spring Training. LGM. BOURN?
A name i did not mention in my previous post about possible starting pitchers the Mets should go after is Daisuke Matsuzaka. It was reported in a Japanese newspaper that he is decided between the Mets Marlins and Indians – his first choice was to return to Boston but they were not interested, which should throw up some red flags… Daisuke had a horrible return from Tommy John surgery last season, having and 8.28 ERA in 11 starts. It is most likely that he will have to agree to a minor league deal. you never know with a pitcher of Daisuke’s caliber, he can always come back. Maybe he just needed more recovery time from the surgery. We are getting close to the time where the Mets will have to make a decision on which veteran pitchers they go after, and my guess is Daisuke wont be donning the orange and blue this spring.
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