K-Rod aftermath

All hope is lost Mets fan. The supposed “bullpen” has done nothing. I remember the first day of the season. Santana pitched a pretty good game, than the bullpen went 3 and 1/3, allowing no hits and no runs. What a tease. Yesterday proved that if the Mets want to win even more than 90 games a season, they need to get rid of a lot of people. That though is another post another time. The mets need to abandon ship for this year. The bullpen has completely let down the team, with a combined tRA of 4.48 (the starters have a 5.16 tRA, the league has a 4.67tRA). Although Aidan was not a fan of him, J.J. Putz (hahahahahahaha) didn’t do terribly as set up man for K-Rod. It seems like the record holder for saves in a season, is the latest in a line of players coming to the Mets and eventually failing (i.e. Pedro, Delgado last year for the first half, Lo Duca in 2007, Sean Green the pitcher who supposedly was good in Seattle). I don’t see the K-Rod experiment working out for the Mets and last night cemented it. If you had been following the Mets this year, you could predict that Pujols would do something to beat the Mets. During the D-Backs series there were guys on second and third with Castillo up to bat. I said “he’s gonna ground out”, and guess what, HE DID. They have been reduced to fans being able to predict when they will fail. And the hitting is a whole other story. The leader for the team in OBP is Beltran and he’s hurt. They are though in 9th in OBP as a team, at .340. That might look good and it’s ok, but .340 is just 10 points higher than the league average. So hope is lost fans and we just have to deal with it.

Note: This was written before Niese and Sheff got injured. Which means hope is evaporating more quickly.