The Gas House Gang

MLB.com beat writer Matthew Leach wrote a nice piece on Brandon Looper.  Looper was pretty shaky for the Mets last season, but Looper is blaming that on a sore shoulder.  He blew eight saves and finished with a 4-7 record before losing the closer role to Aaron Heilman.

Fortunately, we won’t need Looper to close.  He’s not the fireballer that you’d normally out of a closer, and he struck out only 33 batters in 534 innings.  I do think he’ll make a nice set up man for Jason Isringhausen, and in the event Jason goes down, Looper at least has experience closing games.