Mike’s Baseball Rants looks at the Mets roster if they sign Delgado and sees 87 wins, based on projections from 2004 Win Shares totals. I’ll have to get to work on all the adjustments to my Established Win Shares Levels formula to give my own assessment, but that sounds fairly reasonable. There’s a lot of “ifs,” but at least the Mets are entering a season where as many of the ifs are about young players as old ones.
I should add, however, that the Mets still have one glaring absence they haven’t even tried to remedy: a leadoff hitter who gets on base.