Help from unexpected players #2 Joe Smith

Over at sportingnews.com this writer has Joe Smith as the #2 player who will help their team this year

Good teams -- the Mets and White Sox -- and bad teams -- the Nationals and Devil Rays -- could be getting some unexpected help this season from players arriving out of nowhere.

2. Joe Smith, RHP, Mets. This time last year, Smith was pitching for Wright State. The club's third-round pick in 2006, he graduated to the majors this spring by schooling hitters with his wicked sidearm delivery.

~I have a lot of faith in young Joe Smith, and I feel he will be with this club all year and make us all forget who Chad Bradford is. Smith will have to keep working for a spot as it's most likely between him and Burgos when Guerrmo Mota comes back from suspension. Before the season is over we will have seen Joe Smith be a right handed specialist, a middle relief pitcher, a setup man, and possibly used in Long Relief he can do anything.

OT
Just looking through The Nationals roster the other day I saw how bad that rotation is, and was thinking of a possible trade. Jason Vargas and Jon Adkins for Jon Rauch AKA the "Wookie"

The Mets could use a setup man to take some of the load off of Heilman, and Vargas is behind a load of pitchers to get a shot on this team. For The Nationals they get a 22 year old lefty who has had success in the majors before and would probably become their #2 starter. Also Vargas still has some years before free agency so it wouldn't cost The Nationals much.