The Mets have called up Claudio Vargas to start tonight's game in order to move Johan Santana back a day so he can face the Yankees on Friday in the first game of this year's Subway Series. There has been much speculation by the media, wondering if Willy Randolph will push Santana back or if he will have him start in his normal spot in the rotation - pitching on Thursday against the Nationals. According to the New York Post, Randolph has officially made his decision to have Santana start against the Mets' cross-town rivals. In this case, Randolph seems to have gotten caught up a bit with what the media and the fans want. The best decision for a team that is not playing as well as it could is keeping the rotation where it is. You want consistency in a starting rotation and it's hard to get that consistency when starters can't follow their usual routine. Randolph is simply setting up this game for the media and not for the Mets.
- D. Spell
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Actually, by moving Johan back they are just keeping the rotation as is, and while Johan is getting an extra days rest, it means Willie just isn't skipping somebody. Because they had a doubleheader on saturday, they would have either needed to start Pelfrey on short rest today, or have him pitch his regular spot on normal rest tomorrow. They decided to call up Vargas to avoid having Pelf pitch on short rest, and pitching Pelf on normal rest. This is Johan's normal spot in the rotation, he just is getting an extra day off because nobody is getting skipped or Pelf isn't pitching on 3 days rest.
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