Julio Franco said that signing with the Mets was the biggest mistake of his life, not because he opened himself to old man jokes by yours truly, but because with the Mets he sat on the bench for “20 days, sometimes … 15 days … 30 games”.
Yeah, okay.
Maybe the mistake was letting Jesus Flores go in the Rule V draft to sign Julio Franco to a two year contract.
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