Mets traded C Ramon Castro and cash for RHP Lance Broadway. The White Sox saw Broadway as a future No. 3 starter who could make it to the majors quickly when they drafted him 15th overall in 2005, but they were wrong. Broadway didn’t make the team out of spring training. As a reliever he posted a 5.06 ERA. He’ll head to Triple-A Buffalo. The Mets will pay the White Sox roughly $1.4 million, according to a source, the prorated portion of the difference between what remains on Castro’s $2.5 million deal and Broadway’s $402,500 salary at the major-league level.

“On a night like tonight when Omir Santos plays the way he has, it makes the decision easy for us to be able to keep him,” GM Omar Minaya said.

Well it was evident Castro wasn’t a Jerry favorite. Although the Mets had to pay a portion of his salary getting Lance Broadway was definitely better than the alternative of cutting Castro. The rumor was that Castro was offered a starting role and he sort of balked at the role saying he prefered being a backup. Well lets hope Santos keeps it up, we know Scheider can’t hit.

Photo: Topps/homeruncards.com