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Mets pitching for a title, at last

By Jay Jaffe
Baseball Prospectus

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

With last week's signing of Oliver Perez, the Mets' 2009 pitching staff is largely in place. After losing out on playoff spots on the final day of each of the past two seasons, the question is whether general manager Omar Minaya's winter work will be enough to avert a similarly agonizing fate this year. Certainly Minaya tackled the club's primary shortcoming head-on. The 2008 Mets' bullpen finished 14th in the league in Reliever Expected Wins Added (WXRL), and would have ranked among the 10 wo ...

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