Working out the deal for Santana
So the Mets on are the verge of adding Johan Santana to their rotation, and I'm loving it.
They're giving up 2 well regarded prospects in Gomez and Guerra and two desent prospects in Humber and Mulvey for one year and the privilege of signing Santana to a contract in the neighborhood of $150 million (that's a respectable neighborhood). The Mets are in a win now situation. They already have a center-fielder in Carlos Beltran, and they kept Fernando Martinez in the farm system.
I say get it done, then get to work on the bullpen.
Here's the rotation:
Johan Santana
Pedro Martinez
Oliver Perez
John Maine
Orlando Hernandez/Mike Pelfrey
It all hinges on Pedro's health, but still that should be good enough to get to the post season barring an embarrassing collapse (which seems unlikely).