Yes I do.  Even I'm surprised I'm saying it.

You may remember the last time Chan Ho Park wore a Mets uniform and promptly pitched himself out of MLB after one start in 2007.

Or perhaps you remember the last time he started in the majors, on May 6th against the Mets in Citifield and shutout the Mets with a one-hitter over 6 innings (2 BB, 5K).  Course, thats when the Mets had Delgado, Reyes and Beltran healthy and Murphy was still starting in LF.

At any rate, Chan Ho has earned a reputation as a solid RP over the last two years and it's relatively well deserved.  His 2.68 ERA as a RP last year and 4.0 xFIP says he's above average. But he wants to start and that's probably the main reason why he remains unsigned.

So why am I advocating the Mets taking the plunge and accommodating him? As everyone knows, the Mets have a very unsettled rotation at the moment and a bullpen with some RHP question marks (Igr and Esco).  The Mets can offer Chan Ho a very similar deal to what the Phillies offered him last year... low guarantee with incentives and the opportunity for him to earn a starting spot out of ST.  At this point, the Mets might offer the best opportunity for him to earn a starting spot.

I can hear it already though...  "Why offer him the opportunity to start? Why take away innings from Neise? Replacement level, etc. etc.  He's terrible as a starter, he couldn't stick as a starter with the Phillies and Dodgers the last two years."  That's a half truth.  Looking just at last year, Chan Ho was given 6 starts.  In 3 of them, he was subpar.  In the other 3, he was above average, going 7, 6, 6 IP with 6 ER total between the 3 games.  Before being demoted to the pen, he posted two of those above average starts against the Dodgers (Mannyless) and Mets (full-strength) lineups. Anyways, he wasn't given much of a chance as a starter, but showed enough for me to believe.  Especially since most of his poor starts came in CBP and on the road in colorado, which is notoriously difficult for road pitchers, especially ones who rely on the touch of their secondary pitches.

But my overall belief in Chan Ho really boils down to one thing... his GB/FB ratio.  His career GB/FB is 1.29, though in the last two years its been slightly higher.  Chan Ho is a flyball pitcher. Not quite an extreme one, but he's the type of pitcher that benefits from deep fences.  The Mets just so happen to have a stadium that's accommodating to these types.  If they can try to work most of starts to Citifield, Florida and the caverns of the West, they could have a very decent 5th starter or at the very least a strong middle RP.

I'm looking forward to the responses, but I do believe Chan Ho is worth a $2 million guarantee with incentives for either starting or relief innings. 

Update:

So after reading the comments, I get the feeling people are missing just how good of a RP Chan Ho has been these last two years.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/breaking-news-chan-ho-park-is-good/

To put Chan Ho's worth in perspective, he had a 1.5 WAR as a starter and RP last year.  By comparison, Brandon Lyon posted a 1.5 WAR season as a RP in 2007.  The last two years, his WAR was .7 and he received a 3 year, $5 mill per year contract from the Astros.  That is the worst contract for a RP this offseason, but it gives a slight idea of where Chan Ho's value really is.   He's worth at least the $2.5 million he got from the Phillies last year, but he might take a slight discount if it comes with a real shot to be a starter, something the Mets can reasonably offer.