Adam Rubin over at the Daily News reports that reliever Duaner Sanchez has resumed throwing for the first time spring. Sanchez was injured in a car accident while a passenger in a taxi over a year ago and has not played since.

The article looks at some of the events that followed, questioning whether they would have occurred, asking if Sanchez would have given up the game tying triple that Mota did to the Cards and if a healthy Sanchez would have helped the struggling bullpen this season. From his talks with Duaner:

“Myself, when they were struggling, I was struggling, because I would have liked to be in there.”

Rubin cites ex Met pitcher and current rehab trainer Randy Neimann on Duaner’s progress, who reports that his delivery is almost back to the pre-crash days. Head over to the Daily News and check it all out.

A healthy Duaner will be a great addition to the pen, especially since it won’t cost the Mets a prospect or a player, saving that sort of chip for a starter, or for the future. Plus we get that bonus mention of Juan Padilla. While it is an interesting theoretical, no accident, no acquiring Mota, would the last two seasons have given us better results, the flip side is Ollie. Would the trigger on Nady for Perez have been pulled, because while Mota clearly didn’t bring us any joy one cannot say the same for Perez. Chances are even if that deal had not been done, something similar would have, or one of the prospects (Pelf) would have been rushed (or in Pelfs case, rushed more) to fill that starting position.