What's the point?

Pedro had a solid start but I have to agree that having El Duque, at least to come out of the bullpen, can't be a bad thing. It showed last night that that our bullpen is still inconsistent. They have shown they can pick it up and pitch 5 scoreless innings, but they can also nearly blow a 10-2 lead.

As much as I want to have hope for Armas I think his days are numbered. He seems to have a lot of trouble getting outs and his arm strength is never going to be what it used to be.

If we can get keep 6-7 innings out of the other four starters we can carry Pedro when we need to.  Only before his last start did he say he was feeling like his arm was back to end of spring training good.  Pedro has shown more velocity these days.  This leads me to believe he has some better days coming.  Is he going throw a no-hitter, probably not, but can he get back to throwing 7 innings I can see that

Whats the point? 

1.  El Duque can pitch out of the pen and get batters out from BOTH sides of the plate.  Something Heilman....Smith, Feliciano, Schoe, etc. have all been unreliable at.  This is exactly what the Mets need (acutally the second thing, behind another bat in LF)

2.  Lets say El Duque pitches long relief.  Wouldn't it be nice to have a guy on the roster in case of injury to Pedro or in the playoffs considering he's one of the ALL TIME best at pitching in the post-season.

If El Duque is healthy he is going to be really help this team, no matter what role he gets.