Mets on a Firing Spree

The New York Mets have decided to break up with Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez. Although the moves will cost the team a little more than $18 million combined in 2011, these two deserve to be fired. The 34-year-old Castillo batted .235 last year and made 11 errors in 2009. Perez is only 28, but since winning 15 games in 2007 he is 13-16 with an ERA in the 6.80s in each of the last two seasons.

While the Mets won't miss these two on the field, they will miss them even less off it. In 2010 Perez and Castillo were two of just three Mets players who bailed on a team visit to Walter Reed Medical Center. Perez declined to say why he couldn't visit wounded soldiers, while Castillo was at least honest enough to say that blood makes him squeamish (good thing he plays baseball). Since their play made Mets fans queezy, it's obvious the team is better off without these two.