MetsFail

While the formal start of Spring Training has even the most hardened of Mets FAILthful beginning to thaw from a third straight winter of discontent, some fans are unsure what to make of the Rod Barajas signing. The Mets inintially targeted Bengie Molina to be their primary catcher this offseason, but the deal eventually fell throught. What can we expect from Barajas?

Since Schnizzle is partial to sports nicknames, we’ll call them RodBar and B-Mol. Rolls right off la lingua. Rod-Bar’s full name of Rodrigo Richard Barajas could also take the forms Roddy Rich Barajas, RodRick (or Roderick, from which Rodrigo is derived), Roderick Rick B, Roddy Ricardo Piper… you get the picture. For space considerations we’ll stick to RodBar. RotoWorld refers to him as the poor man’s Bengie Molina, so let’s see how some numbers stack up:

                                                   B-Mol                        RodBar

Age                                            37 in July                    35

AVG, Lifetime/’09                     .276/.265                    .238/.226

Fielding %, Lifetime                 .994                           .992

Unibrow                                     1                                0 (two separate eyebrows)

Salary, 2010                               $4.5 Mil                      $900K

So the tale of the tape doesn’t reveal anything special - until you get to the salary.   It indicates B-Mol’s five times the catcher RodBar is, but is he really worth it?  Molina isn’t 175 years old, he isn’t going to hit 1.190 compared to Barajas’ lifetime batting average of .238, and only has a single unibrow over RodBar’s zero, not five.  We conclude that RotoWorld should in fact be calling Molina the rich man’s Rod Barajas!  MetsFAIL averted… until, you know, Barajas is toeing the Medoza Line mid-June.

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