This injury to Sanchez is a huge blow to the Mets. Basically I felt that the Mets were 1 trade away from the world series. Rumor had it that they were very close to aquiring Oswalt. Then the Sanchez news came out and what that did was force Omar to make a trade for that 8th inning reliever. So because of the Sanchez injury the Mets are forced to trade Nady for a reliever to replace Sanchez and now by trading Nady they really cannot package Milledge for a top pitcher in a trade. It looks as though Randolph is going to have to go with Milledge and Chavez in right field now.

It's not so much in losing Sanchez in itself that really hurts the Mets, (of course he was pitching good for them and was a huge addition to this staff) but the domino
effect that it has caused really hurt this teams chance at a truely legitimate shot at aquiring a quality starter to be their number 3 man come playoff time.


Don Cardi