Relief on the way

SPORTING GOODS

In partial response to Sergio's post below, I've had a look at the potential free agents for next year.

The good news is, there is a lot of good short relief help out there, including a few closers. Hopefully the young talent that the Mets have in the starting rotation can continue to develop along with the "veterans" getting and staying healthy, because there is not much starting pitching out there. The key candidates, by "pitcher type":

B.J. Ryan, lhp Alan Embree, lhp Mike Timlin, rhp Kyle Farnsworth, rhp Ugueth Urbina, rhp Mike Remlinger, lhp Matt Herges, rhp Julian Tavarez, rhp Tim Worrell, rhp

Guillermo Mota, rhp Shigetoshi Hasegawa, rhp Billy Wagner, lhp Trevor Hoffman, rhp

Chris Carpenter, rhp Matt Morris, rhp