Lopez and Gregg for 8th inning duty. If they were really about to drop $7.5M on Pineiro, then there is money left to do both of these cause neither will be getting more than $4M at this late date. I guess if they did either one at this point, I might regain a sliver of hope.

I’m not holding my breath.

Looper stinks.

Can’t draw a better conclusion about him.

and basically eat the 8 million owed to Cora/Castillo for the sake of bettering the team, I think I would retract every bad thing I’ve said about Omar this off-season.

(you see how low you’ve forced me to set my standards omar)

cause let’s be honest, nobody wants to see either Cora or AHern playing SS.

the wilpons are definitely not the Boss/ their just wishy washy owners who have spent a great deal of money on a mediocre team. Omar obviously convinced them in 09 that the pitching staff he compiled would take them to oct baseball /so we will be forced to suffer through the same scenario in 2010 Problems still exist at 2b/1b/c/ and with 4 of the sp Will beltran and reyes be healthy and finally what type of year can we expect from wright, rodriguez and francoer?

to God’s ears, Sam.

Let;s sign wang , lopez and damon to 1 yr contracts.

..Was incredibly unlucky with Boston – his BABIP was ridiculously high and his LOB% was ridiculously low. I don’t think its a surprise his ERA was a more reasonable 4.26 as a Cardinal when his BABIP was closer to the norm. The most impressive thing from Smoltz is he still showed he can strike hitters out and throw strikes.

Counting on him for 25+ starts may be a bit crazy though, so I would also bring in Wang, and once hes ready then shift Smoltz to the bullpen (unless hes having a great year).

a Lopez sighting. He is so much better than Castillo it makes my head hurt all day every day as I realize somebody is going to get him for pennies on the dollar. Hopefully this is Omar’s blind squirrel and a nut moment.

is that he cannot admit a mistake. He will not bring in an upgrade over Castillo, even if it’s a cheap one, because he probably thinks Castillo can repeat last year’s performance. And he probably believes Castillo is still a decent fielder, because that’s what he “sees”. It’s maddening.

It’s funny the Castillo contract sounded the early alarm that Minaya wasn’t very smart (although there was other evidence) when judging player value, and the contract just continues to hang around like some albatross he’s too dumb to get rid of. If this organization could have developed or signed a decent 2b in the last few years, we’d maybe have made the playoffs in ’07 and ’08 after Valentin washed out.

cutting loose Castillo (and signing Hudson, who WANTS to be here, or Lopez) after losing all that money to Madoff, Omar (his contract), Randolph, Delgado and Putz? Let’s get real- every guy they waited on (presumingly, getting a better deal) found employment, even though the media had them becoming Mets (without competition). Piniero, Molina, Marquis and Garland to name a few. Let’s just hope the Tatis signing is not any longer than one year.