Memories of Jos� Valverde

[Edgy MD]

Released by the Mets way back on May 26, but never officially moved on to pastos mas verderos until this week when he signed a minor league deal with San Diego.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

[Pumps fist wildly]
[Points triumphantly at fish taco stand]

[Guest themetfairy]

I thought he'd be fun to watch. I wish he had been.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I'd say he was a stop gap, an attempt to catch lightening in a bottle. It missed the bottle. But a lot more fun that Kyle Farnsworth.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He was at the point where it was about 23% talent, 77% bravado + will; and growing.

You knew it couldn't last but that opening-day lightning was something else.

Smell ya later, Papas Fritas.

[seawolf17]

I will forever conflate him with that guy who had the infinite ERA from a few years ago, and despite the photographic evidence, I have no memory of him in a Mets uniform.

[Edgy MD]

That's something funny about veteran relievers. They come in to dark metal, strut the mound area like panthers, flex their muscles after firing a a high fastball past the first batter, but... the radar gun says 91. I'm wondering who they're fooling, and then I look around, and, well, they're fooling everybody.

Trevor Hoffman was running up to 88% bravado by the end.

[Centerfield]

I remember he gave up a bad HR to Raul Ibanez.

Or was that Farnsworth? I forget. I'm not sure it matters.

I remember thinking he would suck. Then thought for a moment "Hey he might not suck". Then thinking again "No, I was right. He sucks."