For Norm Charlton & Others Mets Bullpen Could Be Shot At Return To The Bigs

After a rather stagnant off-season highlighted only by the trade of Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey to Toronto for several top prospects the Mets gobbled up veteran relief pitchers for the 2013 staff.

LaTroy Hawkins, Scott Atchison, Pedro Feliciano, and Brandon Lyon have been signed and will have the chance to make the squad.

But the Alderson administration did not stop there. Believing that there is power in numbers  - as long as those numbers are not on major league contracts - the Mets also offered minor league deals to the following players, all of whom have major league experience.