Jeremy Hefner might be out, but the New York Mets' pitching lab is still intact. While most of the offseason attention will be on what the team does to solve the top of its rotation, make no mistake that David Stearns will be on the prowl for the club's next Frankenstein.
Prior to his frightening injury, Griffin Canning looked to be well on his way to becoming the lab's latest success story. A former top prospect from the Los Angeles Angels, Griffin's career looked to be dead after he was part of a salary dump trade to the Atlanta Braves and immediately DFA'd, but the lab brought him back to life with a 3.