Adam Wainwright looks to be headed for Tommy John surgery so now would be the time for Sandy Alderson to put the hard sell on Cardinals GM John Mozeliak taking Oliver Perez off the Mets hands. Think about it, Alderson just has gush about having the Genius and the greatest pitching coach in the history of baseball take on the biggest bust in baseball. Who but the great Dave Duncan could rehabilitate the wayward Ollie and turn him in a serviceable ML arm.
Say the Mets eat half of Perez’ $12 million ransom you would think with Wainwright (before you folks kill me more in no way am I saying Perez is a replacement of Wainwright as the only thing they have in common is they are both dues paying members of the MLBPA) out and Alderson having a past relationship with The Genius and the world’s greatest pitching coach, he could pursued them to talk Mozeliak into taking OP on as a their greatest reclamation project ever, their very own Billy Ray Valentine.
If Alderson pulls this off I will forever refer to him as Jesus Alderson
No one will take 1/2 of Ollie’s contract unless Omar gets another GM job.
W/respect to paying MLBPA dues, I bet Ollie is late on that too. No way they talke MLB into deducting the dues autmatically the way the socialists in Wisconsin (currently) do it.
Now that pitchers and catchers have reported, can we start counting the days until the 2011 season is over?