Aug 28 2007 08:01 AM
Scott's one of those sad sacks I've reported as being in the limbo of "Extended Spring Training" all year. He's about to find a new limbo called "Failed Baseball Prospect."
St. Lucie Mets pitcher arrested
By PAUL QUINLAN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 27, 2007
A pitcher drafted by the New York Mets in 2006, whose off-color remarks in a MySpace page cost him an agent and thousands in salary, found more trouble early Sunday morning when deputies arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving, arrest records show.
St. Lucie County deputies clocked Scott Alan Schafer, 19, of Texas, driving his Hummer 69 miles-per-hour in a 45 mile-per-hour zone on Okeechobee Road at around 1 a.m. Sunday morning, an arrest report said.
Asked if he knew why he was pulled over, Schafer said he "was doing close to 80 miles per hour," the report said.
Deputies said his speech was mumbled, his eyes bloodshot and watery and he smelled of alcohol, according to the report.
Schafer declined to take a breath test. After performing several field sobriety tests, he was transported to the St. Lucie County Jail and his car was towed, the report said.
Schafer joined the St. Lucie Mets in 2006, the same year the pitcher graduated from high school in Texas.
The Mets later learned about Schafer's MySpace page in which he boasted about drinking and made obscene remarks.
The Mets investigated Schafer and eventually paid him a lower salary than he was likely to have made otherwise.
A Mets spokesman said Schafer played one game in 2006.
