Mets Sign Omar Quintanilla
The flurry of free-agent signings has begun! We may be at the beginning of a blizzard!
Omar Quintanilla returns to the Mets on a minor-league deal with a spring training invite. Great deal, from my perspective, because it means the Mets won’t waste money on Ronny Cedeno. Don’t get me wrong, I like Cedeno, but it looked to me like Quintanilla could provide the same if not better performance at the MLB minimum. And as long as the Mets are counting pennies, it doesn’t make much sense to waste money on lavish luxuries such as Ronny Cedeno.
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So, who else is out there that you left off your list? Q will fill a hole – backup to Tejada since Tovar is not ready – so that’s another good thing. That said, it’s time for Sandy Alderson to move off the clearance aisle for his next purchase or I’ll go back to calling him Sandy Wilpon, and I don’t mean to but Izzy a pizza.