Published 3/29/2008
at Surfing the Mets - NY Daily News Blogs
The Mets’ final Grapefruit League stats are in the books.
Here is the good …
Average
Fernando Martinez .340
Angel Pagan .329
Jose Reyes .328
Raul Casanova .306
Marlon Anderson .294
ERA
Pedro Feliciano 0.00
Aaron Heilman 0.00
Matt Wise 0.96
Billy Wagner 1.29
John Maine 1.78
Pedro Martinez 2.00
Johan Santana 3.15
And the ugly …
Average
Ramon Castro .130
Damion Easley .150
Luis Castillo .188
Ryan Church .212
Fernando Tatis .212
Carlos Delgado .214
ERA
Mike Pelfrey 8.14
Brian Stokes 7.88
Joe Smith 7.11
Orlando Hernandez 6.75
Duaner Sanchez 6.00
Oliver Perez 5.40
Ricardo Rincon 5.00
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It’ll be debated the next 24 hours, but the early consensus seemed to be that Orlando Hernandez needed just a wee bit more time to build up arm strength for the season. His fastball readings were mostly 80-81 mph.
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