Mets Pitching Options Dwindle

A few hours after I wrote about how the Mets should look to Jon Garland over John Smoltz, it was announced that Garland signed a deal with the Padres. Sheets and Garland’s names can both be crossed off the Mets list on the same day. 

Now it seems certain the Mets will make a pitch for Smoltz. Other free agent pitchers still available include Jarrod Washburn, Brandon Backe, Erik Bedard, Jason Jennings, Eric Milton, Chien-Ming Wang, Kip Wells and Horacio Ramirez to name a few.

The Mets should seriously consider Wang, Bedard, Washburn and maybe Backe before Smoltz.