Mets Interested In Fuentes

@scribble that was an extremely stupid comment. The Mets have a much bigger hole in the bullpen than at 1B and LF, and the rotation looks GREAT right now. Santana, Maine, Perez, and Pelfrey all have looked great recently.

Hitting has not been the Mets problem recently. They have had leads in something like 6 of the last 8 games, and the bullpen blew almost all of them.

scribbletone. that makes absolutely no sense. The bullpen right now is the worst part of the mets. the starters areall great and the offense has been fine

Scribble, yes, the Mets could absolutely use a good setup man. They presently have a solidly constructed bullpen, but no real setup guy. Duaner will never be the same, Heilman cant get it together. Fuentes would be a very nice luxury. That said, yes, the Mets absolutely have the biggest holes to fill on offense, and anybody that thinks anything different is kidding themselves. This offense has been anemic, horrible, sickening, nauseating, take your pick. Besides Reyes, this team has been a brutal offensive team. Without Church and Alou, this team is a bottom tier offense. David Wright has been downright terrible. Outside a blistering start, he has been very bad at the plate. So far in 2008 he has looked more like a platoon partner then the all star he is. Beltran has actually had a decent season with the stick, and hit in to tons of bad luck. Between the number of screamers and scorchers he has hit right at people, and the times he has been downright robbed, he has probably lost around 20 to 30 total bases. Delgado has been an embarrasment, but he picked it up just a little bit of late. Castillo has been killed by Met fans, but has actually been okay offensively, posting a 375ish obp in the 2 hole. Alou never plays, and Church was mishandled and now the Mets are without their 2008 MVP, which is killing them. So yeah, the Mets can obviously use an upgrade in a corner spot offensively, but they would also gladly accept any bullpen help they can get.

Yeah, its definitely strange. Dark, with Delgado it is also more then his line sometimes. Like I have said countless times, he just seems to stubborn to adjust his game a bit to compensate for his lost batspeed and declining power. He also doesn't seem to have a gameplan when he bats, though this could be an indictment on the entire Mets roster. They just go up and swing. But Delgado seemingly never comes through (this year atleast)in a big spot and if a pitcher makes a good pitch he has almost no chance to make solid contact. This also wouldn't be as much of an issue if Delgado was batting 6 or 7 where he should be when the team is healthy and not protecting (or not protecting) Beltran. Intersting about Delgado's last 2 aprils, because check out the april of Delgado's first year as a Met in 2006... .298/.391/.617.

I would be fine with a .275/.350/.450 line the rest of the way from Delgado, but I do have my doubts. There are times when he looks truely awful up there.