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It Doesn’t Get Much Worse than Ranger Suarez Being Linked to the Mets
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Which other free agent pitchers are coming up most in your recent conversations?
Olney: Suarez and Valdez, for sure. With the Mets still needing help in their rotation, it seems inevitable they’ll land one of these two — and Suarez makes a lot of sense, given his calm mound presence and experience pitching in a big market for all of those years in Philadelphia.
Ranger wearing a Mets uniform would be tough. No two ways about it. It doesn’t get much more irksome than losing a consistent, cool, fan-favorite pitcher to a division rival. If it was the Marlins, fine, but the Mets?
On the other hand, Framber Valdez and his sticky hands are the perfect for New York. “Hey Valdez, what’s in your hair!” You can’t convince me that guy wasn’t throwing some doctored baseballs in Game 2 of the 2022 Fall Classic. That ball was spinning like a drill from a Venezuelan oil rig.
Hypothetically speaking, is there a worse landing spot for Ranger? The Dodgers, perhaps. They already have a couple of titles and a ridiculously stacked roster. You wouldn’t mind losing him to a team like Baltimore, which reportedly has interest. He can even go to the Yanks or Red Sox or Houston Asterisks or anybody in the American League. Just keep Suarez out of the NL East. It would be a total bummer.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com