Thursday, February 5, 2009

Fan favorite Cliff Floyd signs deal with Padres


Mets fan favorite Cliff Floyd will make the rounds of the baseball parks in 2009 with the Padres as per ESPN's Ken Rosenthal.


Cliff, who was a value memeber of the Rays in 08, now goes out west to play with former Met Mike Cameron and the San Diego Padres. Floyd sign a deal worth 750K for 1 year.


Check out what Paul Podesta said at his blog here


"We've been talking for a number of weeks internally about the need to add a left-handed bat into the mix, as our bench was looking awfully right-handed. In an ideal world, we wanted to find a guy who could provide three primary skills: 1) the ability to do damage against RHP as either a pinch hitter, DH or occasional starter, 2) the ability to play somewhere other than 1B if need be, and 3) the ability to act as a leader for our younger players. We found a match in Cliff."


We wish him the best and look forward to seeing him when the Mets open Citi Field on April 13th against the Padres.

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