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Brian Lawrence.

metirish May 07 2007 08:21 AM

Signs with Mets,expected to make a few minor league starts,was pitching in the Rockies system,pitched good in spring training but when he was eligible to come off the disabled list in April, the Rockies didn't have a spot for him in the rotation. Lawrence declined to stay on his rehab assignment any longer so the Rockies designated him for assignment to create a roster spot and eventually released him. Career - 49-61 record with a 4.10 ERA. http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lawrebr02.shtml I would think he can contribute at some point.

Benjamin Grimm May 07 2007 08:26 AM

This year's Dave Williams, it sounds like. A good option to have, I guess. Hopefully they'll never need to turn to him. It would be good if the Mets could get through the season without anybody other than the following pitchers getting any starts: Glavine, Hernandez, Perez, Maine, Pelfrey, Sosa, Pedro.

TheOldMole May 07 2007 12:19 PM

Give Humber a few.

Benjamin Grimm May 07 2007 12:28 PM

Only if you ask nicely.

Nymr83 May 07 2007 12:34 PM

I've always liked Lawrence, good pickup but I hope they told him not to expect a place in the rotation unless there is injury/ineffectiveness

metirish May 07 2007 12:45 PM

You can never have enough arms,know what I mean?

Benjamin Grimm May 07 2007 01:14 PM

Irish, I had no idea you were so articulate!

attgig May 07 2007 01:29 PM

Nymr83 wrote: I've always liked Lawrence, good pickup but I hope they told him not to expect a place in the rotation unless there is injury/ineffectiveness me too. he was a pretty good workhorse in SD, he was consistently 200+innings ~4 era with 10-15 wins. hopefully pitcher's park in shea gets him back to that old form.

Rockin' Doc May 07 2007 04:33 PM

metirish - "You can never have enough arms,know what I mean?" That's what I would expect GSLC to say.

Edgy DC May 07 2007 05:29 PM

Do we have an official announcement on this yet?

Edgy DC May 08 2007 09:45 AM

Still not seeing anything on this being done. You'd figure the Yankees would have more use of the guy than the Mets would. They've had ten starters already. Though I'm gussing nobody expects Friar Lawrence to be ready right away. Is that right?

metirish May 08 2007 09:53 AM

From what I can find it's pending a physical and should be announced Wednesday,he would start in AAA,apparently he was ready to pitch for the Rockies but they didn't have room for him.

iramets May 08 2007 10:13 AM

Browning reference!

soupcan May 08 2007 10:38 AM

Today's NYTimes... INSIDE PITCH Carlos BeltrÁn (sore left quadriceps) and Moises Alou (left knee) returned to the lineup. Alou, out since Thursday, batted cleanup, moving Carlos Delgado to fifth. ... Omar Minaya said that Orlando HernÁndez was progressing well in his recovery from shoulder bursitis, but that Jorge Sosa would receive at least two more starts in Hernández’s place. ...The Mets are on the verge of adding to their minor league pitching depth by signing the right-hander Brian Lawrence. The 30-year-old Lawrence missed last season after shoulder surgery. When the contract is completed, Lawrence, who is 49-61 with a 4.10 earned run average in five major league seasons with San Diego, will report to Class AAA New Orleans.

metirish May 21 2007 10:57 AM

Lawrence goes tonight for the Zephers. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t588

Rotblatt May 21 2007 12:17 PM

] ]I've always liked Lawrence, good pickup but I hope they told him not to expect a place in the rotation unless there is injury/ineffectiveness me too. he was a pretty good workhorse in SD, he was consistently 200+innings ~4 era with 10-15 wins. hopefully pitcher's park in shea gets him back to that old form. Ditto. This is a great low-risk/decent potential signing. He had solid peripherals (~2:1 K/BB ratio pretty much every year), and good command in the bigs, but did tend to give up the long ball. Pitching at Shea can only help . . . Dude's like a poor man's Trachsel, and at 31, he could be valuable for a couple more years, depending on how his shoulder holds up (he missed last year due to a shoulder injury). According to Rotoworld, we signed him for $750K with a 2008 option, which sounds just about perfect to me. As a side note, I would love it if he ends up pitching more and higher quality innings than Clemens. That would just make my year.

Nymr83 May 21 2007 12:33 PM

i'd like it more i he was never needed to pitch any innings at all... (even though i like the guy)

Benjamin Grimm May 21 2007 12:39 PM

"A poor man's Trachsel?" Yikes. I remember when we had "a poor man's Greg Maddux." We're really slipping, aren't we? What's next? A poor man's Geremi Gonzalez?

Johnny Dickshot May 21 2007 01:04 PM

We already have David Newhan -- "A poor man's Shawn Gilbert."

Rotblatt May 21 2007 01:07 PM

]Yikes. I remember when we had "a poor man's Greg Maddux." We're really slipping, aren't we? What's next? A poor man's Geremi Gonzalez? Well, how about "a far less expensive and only slighly less effective version of Trachsel" then (doesn't really flow trippingly off the tongue, does it?)? They've actually been fairly similar in their careers, although Trachs got an earlier start than Lawrence and has had one great year--which is one more than Lawrence. Trachs strikes out a bit more, but Lawrence allows fewer baserunners. Their results by age are fairly similar. 26 YO L: 210 IP, 149 K, 52 BB, 16 HR, 104 ERA+, 1.34 WHIP T: 201.3 IP, 160 K, 69 BB, 32 HR, 95 ERA+, 1.46 WHIP 27 YO 210.7 IP, 116 K, 57 BB, 27 HR, 94 ERA+, 1.25 WHIP 208 IP, 149 K, 84 BB, 27 HR, 98 ERA+, 1.39 WHIP 28 YO 203 IP, 121 K, 55 BB, 26 HR, 97 ERA+, 1.38 WHIP 205.7 IP, 149 K, 64 BB, 32 HR, 87 ERA+, 1.41 WHIP 29 YO 195.7 IP, 109 K, 57 BB, 18 HR, 80 ERA+, 1.37 WHIP 200.7 IP, 110 K, 74 BB, 26 HR, 103 ERA+, 1.53 WHIP Between his 31st and 33rd years, Trachs went on to post ERA+'s of 116, 112, 107, and IP of 173.7, 204.7, 202.7. Of course, Trachs wasn't coming back from shoulder surgery, so . . . PECOTA predicts that this will be his worst year: 63.3 IP, 5.49 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, and they think he will continue to suck until he retires from baseball at age 35. Seems awfully pessimistic to me, but then, I'm just a simple Mets fan, not a complicated mathematical algorythm . . .

Nymr83 May 22 2007 05:21 PM

6 innings, 7 strikeouts, 1 run, 4 hits, 1 walk for Lawrence today in his debut.

Rockin' Doc May 22 2007 08:56 PM

I would have preferred that been Jorge Sosa's line today.