The Mets are playing at Arizona this weekend and unfortunately for the Metsies, the DBacks look like the most exciting team in the league right now. They can hit bombs, run, and pitch. They are second in the NL in Runs, second in HomeRuns, first in ERA, and first in Wins. Their lineup has been mashing and their starters have been dealing. Both sides of the ball are loaded with young stars, and they just brought up this Scherzer kid who has already proven his minor league numbers are no joke. If only they had held on to Carlos Quentin (although the player they got for Quentin helped them get Dan Haren). Quentin is raking and drawing tons of walks for the WhiteSox. As good as things are going for Arizona, they looked just as bad for the Mets yesterday. Ollie Perez had one of his far too frequent blow-up days where he can't throw a strike, can't field his position, and can't pitch past the second inning. The Mets played some horrible defense all day, and were basically just playing out the game after in the second inning. It wouldn't be that big of a deal, except it was Perez' fifth consecutive bad start. Meaning he's only had one good start this year, his first one. Since then he's put up these numbers in five starts: 23IP, 20BB, 23H, 3HBP, 18K. So he's putting tons of baserunners on and not pitching deep into games. Not good.
*Darrel Strawberry was on the post-game SNY show yesterday. He was actually pretty good, not as grating as Mazzilli.
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