Memo to the Mets Management from its fans: Please release Gary Matthews. Eat his contract. Bring up Cris Carter or someone that can hit. He is terrible.
I will be the first to admit I was intrigued by the deal they got from the Angels. LA ate all of his remaining salary except for $2 million. The Mets had a short-term fill-in for Carlos Beltran. In his free agent year of 2006 he hit .313 with 19 hr, 79 rbi, 102 runs. If he could be half of that it could be viewed as a positive considering we only gave up Brian Stokes for him.
He is terrible. I can handle Catalanotto hitting .136 on the year. At least he has value as a utility infielder even though he isn't hitting. But giving Matthews at bats is terrible. Even worse is that we kept him on the roster long enough for the Reds to see how terrible he is. There is no way they even consider Matthews for Arroyo now like they had earlier in the spring. I'm not saying bring up F-Mart, but how about Carter or even Nik Evans? Just do it.
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