This signing just keeps getting better and better.

10 mil for 6 bad weeks. well done. now we have just one bad weeks.

No, the DWI into the old tree. That drunk left the scene of the accident, but it should be easy to match the car to the owner.

It should be easy to match the car to the owner, but can you ID the driver?

Whaddya know?

For all of Rickie's perceived failures the kid is fourth in the NL in runs scored at 38. That's 38 runs scored on 38 hits. His line is .210/.341/.376 which ain't much no matter how you slice it. But he crosses home plate. And this on a team 12th in the NL in runs scored. Just as he did last year when he scored 87 runs while garnering 96 hits and hitting .235 on a season where he missed 40 odd games due to injury and a stint in the minors.

Look, I get that the guy is flawed. And maybe he never will hit .270 in the majors which puzzles me to no end.

But he scores runs.

Oh and as for Gagne Melvin rolled the dice hoping that a change of venue and the "weaker" league would generate different results.

Obviously that hasn't happened.

I will say that this his "stuff" has been ok. But his control has been terrible. 16 walks in 19 innings!

Whaddya know?

Let us see if this will be sufficiently sarcastic:

Oh yes I agree totally! This announcement proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was injured when he blew all those ballgames for the Red Sox last year, and just didn't want to admit it to anyone! Because a closer that there are whipspers about being a bonifide no-more-steroids-anymore headcase will recieve much much much better contract offers than a closer who had an injury that was treated!

/rolls eyes

And why are you up at 6:35 AM? Or are you still up at 6:36 AM?

It should be easy to match the car to the owner, but can you ID the driver?

This is CSI:Bedford Falls! DNA off the steering wheel, the cops find him wandering aimlessly on a bridge nearby, pulling petals out of his pocket; they'll get him in the box and sweat the truth out of him.

For all of Rickie's perceived failures the kid is fourth in the NL in runs scored at 38. That's 38 runs scored on 38 hits. His line is .210/.341/.376 which ain't much no matter how you slice it. But he crosses home plate. And this on a team 12th in the NL in runs scored. Just as he did last year when he scored 87 runs while garnering 96 hits and hitting .235 on a season where he missed 40 odd games due to injury and a stint in the minors.

Look, I get that the guy is flawed. And maybe he never will hit .270 in the majors which puzzles me to no end.

But he scores runs.

Rickie's only hitting .223 on balls in play.

That can't continue. I mean, it just can't. Pure luck will bump his average (and, correspondingly, his OBP and SLG) up with playing time.

The worst thing that could happen production-wise for Weeks would be to bench him.

Who's the closer? Torres? Mota? Dillard?
On the other hand, who really cares...

His line is .210/.341/.376 which ain't much no matter how you slice it. But he crosses home plate.

That OBP's not too bad considering his batting average, but you still wouldn't expect him to score that many runs given his stat line and the struggles of the rest of the offense. Is he especially good at going from first to third/second to home? Or does Braun hit especially well with Weeks on base?

Supposedly Torres, but it's fluid.