According to Mack’s Mets, Val Pascucci has been released.
If I worked really hard, I could probably drum up a post about how he’d be a better fit at first base for the big-league club than Mike Jacobs, but I don’t actually think that’s true, so I won’t. It might be closer than you think, though.
If I were a betting man — which I am, but I don’t know of an outlet that takes bets on stuff like this — I’d say he returns to Japan, where he was a hero, to make some good guaranteed money and enjoy the sweet sounds of the familiar Hey Pascucci chant, embedded below.
But here’s hoping he stays stateside and lands with some team that isn’t already loaded up with Minor League mashers like the Mets are, and that team ends up with a need for some big-league bench power, and Pascucci produces. Oh, and that team is not the Phillies. I want to root for the guy, after all.
It’s funny that, by the circumstances presented by the 2008 season, I’ve wound up following Val Pascucci’s career so closely. I imagine some Yankees fans are now doing the same for Jon Weber. The pursuit of Major League dreams is a strange thing. Here’s to those guys for keeping on.
Tedquarters 
What the heck are they saying in that video? La la la la la la la Go Pitching?
No, no. They’re saying, “Hey, Pascucci!”
lalalalalalala lalalalalalala
lalalalala lala lala lalala lalalala
**** “oi”
**** “oi”
******* “Val Pascucci!”
I was in the crowd cheering him up then
I feel sorry he didn’t have opportunity to show his great pitching while he was playing for Marines
We miss that “talented” player so much from Marine Stadium, Chiba Japan
I’m disappointed, I wanted to see him in Buffalo.
CHONE actually projects Val to be better.
Pascucci: -5 offense, -1 defense
Jacobs: -6 offense, -6 defense
Mike Jacobs really sucks. There now are only 4 better first baseman than him (Tatis, Murphy, Carter, Catalanotto). Catalanaotto and Jacobs are very, very close though.