Mets fans have wanted Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo off the team for a long time now. They might get their wish very soon. With all the negativity swirling around the Mets ownership with the Bernie Madoff situation, the team might be desperate to give the fan base something to be happy about.
Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo are great people but Mets fans can’t stand them as players. They both have one thing in common: they are being paid too much money. Perez is being paid $12 million a year to be mop-up reliever. Castillo’s contract is not as bad as Perez’s but no team wants to pay an aged second baseman who can’t field anymore due to his bad knees.
Spring training is 10 days away and Perez and Castillo deserve the chance to at least try to win a job on the team. As of now, it doesn’t look like they will get that chance. Word around the Mets’ front office is that they might cut Perez and/or Castillo before spring training begins.
If the Mets do that, then they will finally give their fans something to smile about. It may not be the right move to make regarding the baseball team, but it will cut the front office a lot of slack.
The Wilpons are in a mess right now and the fans aren’t too happy about it. One way to make the fan base happy is to cut Perez and Castillo.
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