Johan Santana To Start On Three Days Rest

"I'm all about winning and we're trying to win every game," Santana said Friday. "And if that's the case and they want me to do it, I don't have a problem with that."

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Great.

I guess we have to hope for lots of two- or three-pitch at-bats.

'Catsmeat!' he cried. 'I see it all. It was that chump, Catsmeat.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Sep 27, 2008 10:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Doesn't matter.

Pick a random number from the roster and send him out to pitch.
I hope this sorry excuse for a team gets booed relentlessly for their last two days at Shea.

The butcher and the baker and the people on the street, where did they go? To meet the Mets!

by Rod Gaspar Fan Club on Sep 27, 2008 10:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It’s all been said already, but this makes no sense. The weird thing is that the reason it makes no sense is even contained in Johan’s pull-quote — we almost certainly need to win both remaining games to make the playoffs. So why not start him tomorrow instead of today?

It kind of amazes me that baseball men continue to think starting on three days’ rest is a good strategy. (Though in this case it’s more of a desperate roll of the dice, I guess.) The results, in general, are not encouraging.

by anonymous on Sep 27, 2008 11:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Looking ahead

Stupid, I know, but if the Mets somehow make the postseason, pitching Santana today would allow him to pitch games 2 and 5 of the LDS on normal rest. If Santana pitches Sunday instead of Saturday, he would have to start one of those LDS games — against a better team than the Marlins — on short rest.

by Eric Simon on Sep 27, 2008 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

fair point

by JoshNY on Sep 27, 2008 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If this works for Johan,

Maybe Jerry should pitch Ollie on short-rest tomorrow. If the season and a free-agent contact are on the line, maybe the Human Slot Machine will come up triple-Liberty Bells for the Mets.

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by IanB in MD on Sep 27, 2008 12:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs