...whatever you want to call him, it's clear that John Maine has the goods, and has developed into one of the upper echelon pitchers in either league. It's totally clear that Maine has the ability to plug up the sinkhole that is sometimes known as Mets baseball, and as Joe Benigno on WFAN said yesterday, in a neat twist on the old "Spahn and Sain:" "Santana and Maine, and pray for rain!" And pray indeed, but we won't go there today, will we?
So far this year, Maine has won four times after Mets losses, and that ain't nothing to sniff at, especially in a year where the Mets have played "we win one, we win one not" kind of baseball.
And a word to Omar, here -- remember, dear, pitching and defense win championships. So far, other than Santana and Maine, we are praying for lots of rain when it comes to the other starters, and let's just say that the Mets defense has looked.... inconsistent thus far, to put it nicely. These are definite areas of concern in the early going, and things about which I would focus on if I were the GM, which of course I'm not, but still....
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