Then there are the Braves.
The Braves play at Turner Field, which is also a major hitters' park. With Chipper Jones, Jeff Francoeur, and Mark Texeira, the Braves pose a real threat to Santana, who after all served up a shocking career high 33 home runs.
Although RFK and Shea Stadium are pitchers' parks, this will soon change, since both teams are undergoing new field reformation that will reportedly cease in 2009. RFK stadium possibly the biggest pitcher park in the majors will be destroyed and replaced with a new stadium, just in time for the start of the season.
To reiterate the statement, Santana will have a hard time adjusting to the NL East.
To conclude, Johan Santana’s trip to the NL East will pan out as a stupid mistake. Although Santana is a two time Cy Young pitcher, it will be interesting to see how he comes off of a 15 game Season his worst since ‘03. The fact is that the rest of the NL EAST teams have gotten bigger, better, faster and stronger, and look for the teams to show a huge improvement from last year.
Besides landing Santana, Mets GM Omar Minaya had a pretty insignificant off-season, which will surely cost them. The Philadelphia Phillies won 89 games last year, and at the beginning of Pat Gillick’s tenure as GM, he stated to Philly fans, that 90 games was the goal, 90 games would make it to the playoffs.
With the immense improvements aforementioned, I believe the Phillies are better than the were last year, so they should win over 89 games.
We will just have to see how Santana pans out, but until opening day 2008 on April 1st Mets VS Marlins we can only hypothesize.
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