He Owes the Mets a Cut

The Cardinals recently signed pitcher Joel Pineiro to a 2 year contract extension worth $12 million.
Three months earlier Pineiro was designated for assignment by the Red Sox.
In the last 2 months of the season he made 11 starts with the Cardinals and went 6-4 with a 3.96 ERA. Hardly worth $6 million per, especially for a guy who'd been 21-35 the previous 3 seasons.
But Pineiro tantalized Cardinals executives with his dominant performance over the Mets in the final week of the season, in the game that really drove the stake through the team's heart.