Schoenweiss and Sosa Available for Trades

Good luck Omar! Scott Schoenweiss has 2 years and $7.2 million left on his contract. Jorge Sosa has one year and $2 million left. Look at last year’s numbers:

Schoenweiss: 70 games 0-2 5.03 ERA

Sosa: 42 games 9-8 4.47 ERA

Neither one of these two is a prize out of the bullpen. Hang on to your hat when they come in the game because it’s going to be a wild ride. Sosa can start but I don’t see him having much value there either. He started 14 games last year and wasn’t particularly effective.

Omar Minaya must be hoping that some desperate team for bullpen help will take one or both of these bad contracts off his hands.

New York Mets High Priced Talent, Really High Priced

Dan Rosenheck of the Times did a great article analyzing the contract of Johan Santana. The factors considered are: his historical performance, statistically similar pitchers, age, and value based on Citi Field opening next year. I usually look at Baseball-Reference for statistically similar players, and they list Roy Oswalt and Tim Hudson among others as the most statistically similar to Santana.

Santana

The Walking Wounded

It seems like everyone is injured. The list is long: Gotay, Beltran, Schneider, Delgado, El Duque, Church, Anderson… is there anyone left? The longer El Duque stays out, the better Pelfrey’s chances are of making the team out of spring training. He pitched three more innings today, two hits and no runs. It’s early but if this keeps up there’s no denying Pelfrey the fifth spot in the rotation.

Pelfrey