Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Contribution of Pedro Martinez

Sunday (if all goes right) The Mets will face the man whom many (including myself) dubbed as the savior of this Mets franchise. That person being Pedro Martinez. Now obviously he didn't do much on the field but his off the field contributions made him worth the contract that the Mets gave him back in the winter of 2004.


Coming off of the dismal regime of Art Howe and Jim Duquette, the Mets needed to completely revamp the franchise. There seemed to only be one man for the job and that man was Pedro. Once he signed with us we became credible again and made players want to come here.

I believe that without the Pedro deal we might be in a playoff drought A LOT longer than the one we're currently in. Think about this potential 2009 starting lineup

P Kris Benson
C Ramon Castro
1B Doug Mientkiewicz
2B Kaz Matsui
SS Jose Reyes
3B David Wright
LF Lastings Milledge
CF Mike Cameron
RF Sean Green

Not all that pretty. I believe that without the acquistion of Pedro we have almost none of the players that we have now. I'm sure RCIII is now regretting that we ever signed him. Since he is now a Philly there will be some boos but if I were there I would give him a standing ovation for all of his work for this franchise.

Posted by metfan722 at 12:56 PM  

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2 comments:

Tim Monaco said...
interesting post, and an interesting train of thought, but its very tough to say that NONE of those guys would be there and there would be 0 replacements for the guys from FA.
8/19/09, 6:00 PM  

metfan722 said...
True. But you get the jist of it.
8/19/09, 6:58 PM  

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