SI.com’s John Donovan recently wrote up his NL East preview, and while it looks like nobody wants to ever bet against the Braves, Donovan gives the Mets their due for the offseason acquisitions.
I really, really think this is the Mets year. The only thing that might fail them is their rotation. If the Mets aren’t in front of the NL East, I think we’ll be regretting that Kris Benson trade. We need to protect Pedro Martinez, and fortunately Minaya signed the arms in the pen to help out with that. The offense is there without a doubt.
Plus it would be fitting for the Mets to win it when I’m commerating the 1986 Mets championship team. I’ve written up a bunch of the diary entries (go to Tigerblog to see what he did for the 1984 and 1935 Tigers) and I think this will be a fun way to relive a great team on their 20th anniversary.
Pitchers and catchers reported today. Baseball’s back :-).
