Today the Mets signed free agent middle infielder Omar Quintanilla. As per usual, I am not quite sure why based on his stats but I assume the front office knows something I don't. He was a first round draft pick in 2003 by the A's. Both the A's and the current Mets front office have a good eye for hidden talent so I am assuming this guy has something going for him that the numbers don't show. Just for comedy sake, let's take a look at his numbers.
Omar is entering his age 30 season and did a 50 game suspension last year for testing positive for a PED. In 2011 he went 1 for 22, in case you are wondering that is a BA of .045 and an an OPS plus of -55. I have actually never seen a negative of OPS + so he has that going for him. He has never played a full season, the closest he came was 81 games in 2008 where he posted a .238 BA and played a serviceable if not above average defense at 2b (UZR 1.1). His career WAR is -.04 which is, you know, not promising.
However I will say about young Omar what I say about every low end guy the Mets sign. R.A. Dickey was once a laughably bad signing that no one thought would ever make the team and look how good that turned out...
Quinty (as he will soon be known as) will hit .330 with 18hr's, 97 runs scored and 22 steals
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