New Season....Same Problem

The Mets have gotten off to a slow start this season mostly due to poor pitching performances. Pitching seemed to be the main problem last year and this year looks no different. For three years now Johan Santana has carried the pitching staff with no help. Pitchers John Maine, Mike Pelfrey and Oliver Perez have followed Santana with their results getting worse instead of better year after year.

Last night aganist The Rockies, Maine allowed eight earned runs in just three innings. Which is just more proof that the Mets should of pursued harder for free agent pitcher John Lackey. In fact, it did not even have to be Lackey, just anyone new to get the fans excited. If Santana is not on the mound, the fans know that there is a good chance that they are going to go home to another Mets defeat.

Not only are the fans thinking it, but by now the players have to be thinking it as well. The moment the first few runs come in the Mets have that here we go again attitude and seem to mail it in. The team needs some new blood in the starting rotation to get the fans and players fired up. When Carlos Beltran is healthy in a few months maybe the Mets can trade Gary Mattews Jr. for a starting pitcher or some new prospects. Whatever it is I'm all for it!

Maine may lose his spot in the rotation, but do you also want to see Perez or Pelfrey go too? Any pitcher you think the Mets can make a move for?