Mets placing faith in Garcia, Spencer

The notion that someone coming from a winning program has some kind of mojo about them is remarkably silly.

Updated: March 5, 2004, 7:42 AM ET
By Jim Baker | MLB Insider
There's an article in the New York Times today that says the Mets hope that the winning ways of a couple of former Yankees -- Shane Spencer and Karim Garcia -- "rubs off" on their new team.

I will bet you that somewhere in this great land of ours, a doctor is still using leaches to bleed bad "humors" out of patients.

These two motives are not unrelated.


To continue reading this article you must be an Insider

Jim Baker | email

Page 2
Jim Baker is an author at Baseball Prospectus and a frequent contributor to Page 2. You can e-mail Jim at bottlebat@gmail.com.

SPONSORED HEADLINES

MORE MLB HEADLINES

MOST SENT STORIES ON ESPN.COM

ALSO SEE