Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Just like Al Leiter...
ESPN's preseason Power Rankings are out and the Mets are number 22, just above those teams best described as "hopeless". The Mets did manage to beat out one of their NL East rivals, the Expos, who came in at number 26. I did find the comment accompanying the Mets' ranking a bit odd.
Saying their pitching got younger is a little weird given that each of the Mets' five starting pitchers is likely to be precisely one year older than the man who occupied his spot for the majority of last year. Maybe they're talking about the twenty-seven month gap between Armando Benitez and Braden Looper. ¶ joe | 11:30 PM |
ESPN's preseason Power Rankings are out and the Mets are number 22, just above those teams best described as "hopeless". The Mets did manage to beat out one of their NL East rivals, the Expos, who came in at number 26. I did find the comment accompanying the Mets' ranking a bit odd.
"Defense better, pitching younger, but so many strikeouts in the lineup; they are doomed to play in the shadows of the Bronx."
Saying their pitching got younger is a little weird given that each of the Mets' five starting pitchers is likely to be precisely one year older than the man who occupied his spot for the majority of last year. Maybe they're talking about the twenty-seven month gap between Armando Benitez and Braden Looper. ¶ joe | 11:30 PM |
