then I looked at his stats and barfed again. Just what we all want and need, more barfing bunting. The only positive he brings any more is not striking out. His defense and speed are on the decline – he has stolen less than 75% of his attempts the past 3 years combined – and he makes Ruben Tejada look powerful. There is no quality about Juan Pierre that Andres Torres can’t outperform, except the striking out. Why him?

less than 5 k/9 for his career, with 3 BB/9

Don´t think Pierre would be such a bad pick-up.
While he has been a miscast as an everyday player for the last several years, he does make a lot of contact and would certainly be somewhat of a scare as a speedy PH off the bench who actually hits lefties at least as well as righties. In fact, Pierre´s best season in recent history came a couple of years ago when he was backing up for Manny Ramrirez in LA and wasn´t a fulltime player. He has always been somewhat of a poor man´s Ichiro Suzuki with a 30 throwing arm instead of Ichiro´s 80 hose. I wouldn´t mind having him as the 5th OF for a very modest price.

From all I´ve heard about him, he´s also pretty good clubhouse person. Which Alex Cora, of course, supposedly was too and which usually doesn´t get you any wins. But still, with a mostly young team, maybe he can be a good influence.

And with the Mets really lacking speed, being able to insert Pierre as a PR in a tie game with Lucas Duda at 2b may also be worth something.

Meanwhile, Ankiel may have some pop and is a better defender than Pierre – but lacks contact / OB skills you´d probably want coming off the bench. Fukudome probably goes back to Japan anyway and isn´t good at anything, really – though he does get off to pretty good starts in April & May traditionally before collapsing.

As for Jon Garland, I´m not sure he´s healthy. Would be of interest as someone to rehab and then possibly have as an option by mid-year. That said, I´m not sure he´s a better bet than Mike Pelfrey going forward.

at $1M. I’d rather have Kosuke though.