Hendry and middle relievers

[BT]

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-Hendry is an idiot for signing a veteran like Grabow to a contract that is fairly consistent with the market for veteran left handers, because it's stupid to overpay for veterans.
-Hendry is also an idiot for NOT signing enough veterans, so we are stuck depending on our rookie relievers.
-Hendry is also an idiot for not signing a guy who couldn't make the freaking METS bullpen, and is currently toiling in the minors.

So don't sign veterans, don't rely on rookies, and for God's sake, the answer to our bullpen problems clearly resides on the Mets AAA roster.


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It's just the first two. And for the first one, no one else believes Grabow's contract is consistent with what he would have gotten on the open market this season.

Those are the reasons, among others unrelated to the bullpen, Hendry is an idiot.

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Since I am the ONLY person in the world that thinks Grabow's contract was pretty consistent to what others were getting this off season, what do you think Grabow would get on the open market? Bear in mind Latroy Hawkins got 7.5 million for 2 years, Rafael Betancourt got 7.5 million for 2 years, and Brandon Lyon got 15 million for 3 years. They are all right handed, and left handers tend to get bigger contracts. How does Grabow's contract NOT fit into that market?

does that make the Grabow signing a good one? No, but people on this board act like the pulled a guy out of the Taco Bell drive thru and handed him 7.5 million dollars.

In truth, I would rather we didn't spend a lot of money on middle relief. However, I also understand that if you decide to go the "fill the slots from your minor leagues" route, that the end result could easily be what we've seen so far. That's the risk.