Sheffield The Met

A couple of days ago I wrote about how much I love Sheffield and how much I wanted him to not go to the Phillies or the Braves so I could still root for him. I was not expecting him to actually end up a Met. At first I felt that this was a terrible deal. He would eat up Church's playing time, he would be bad in the club house and he would hurt the overall team first mentality that the Mets have.

Then I found how much of that was Mike F on the Fan and what actually went down. After reading Minaya's remarks, I realized how good of a deal this was for the Mets. Apparently Sheff knows from Manuel what his role is and that he will have to work for playing time. He knows that this a team and not a place for him to just pad his stats. In that case, this is a great deal for the Mets because they get a powerful right handed bat in the lineup, they get it for 400,000 and they get rid of Marlon, who has had his good times with the Mets, but all good things must come to an end. This is a low risk high reward situation for the Mets because if he doesn't work, the Mets will just cut him and then they can move someone like Evans up to the majors.

And in the end, now I really get to root for Sheffield and his amazing swing, lets hope for the best, this could be a big thing for the Mets. (This is either the last piece of the puzzle, or the piece that causes the scale to spill over, and only time will tell). On a side note, the Phillies players were calling Sheff to convince him to come to the Phills, so take that Philly, now you have no Sheff and no Jenkins.