Return from Hibernation: Road to Recovery

With the Winter Meetings on the horizon and just ahead, I return from a three month hiatus from posting here on Metsmerized. I have not been short of words to say or topics to discuss, but the emotional letdown of yet another September meltdown was too much to overcome until now. My outlook for this offseason is optimistic but yet frighteningly realistic at the same time. I do believe the Mets number one priority needs to be adding a legitimate closer who can lead a battered bullpen which at the current time has not one reliever worth writing home to mother about. The pressures of pitching in the New York market as well as 10 times a year in the house of the defending world champions is a daunting task and it takes a set of stones to get that done. Francisco Rodriguez or K-Rod as we like to dub him, I believe should be the man to fill this vacancy. He has a World Series ring on his resume. Though he had over 60 saves last season, not one of them were recorded while going over one i...