02-03-2003, 07:30 PM
As a Mets fan, I agree with you.
You can't realistically expect all the players who had down years last year to repeat their performance from last year. Between Alomar, Vaughn, Piazza, Burnitz, Cedeno, and Floyd you have to at least expect half if not all of them to play to their career averages or better. If they can at least do that, the Mets will be very competitive. The bullpen is stronger with the addition of Stanton, and the rotation is great 1-2-3, 4-5 is suspect with Trachsel 4th and either Bacik or Strange filling out 5th. The Mets have serious holes at short and third, but anything is an improvement offensively over Ordonez. Hopefully the Mets will acquire a third baseman or pray that Wigginton continues his hot streak he displayed at the end of last season.
You can't realistically expect all the players who had down years last year to repeat their performance from last year. Between Alomar, Vaughn, Piazza, Burnitz, Cedeno, and Floyd you have to at least expect half if not all of them to play to their career averages or better. If they can at least do that, the Mets will be very competitive. The bullpen is stronger with the addition of Stanton, and the rotation is great 1-2-3, 4-5 is suspect with Trachsel 4th and either Bacik or Strange filling out 5th. The Mets have serious holes at short and third, but anything is an improvement offensively over Ordonez. Hopefully the Mets will acquire a third baseman or pray that Wigginton continues his hot streak he displayed at the end of last season.
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