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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, June 28, 2008MLB.com: Phillies may move Myers to bullpen
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Anyone want a too-expensive head case for their stretch drive? I imagine Philly would take a literal bucket of baseballs if someone took on the full salary.
But man, the Phillies are looking at paying a head case $12 million next year to come out of the bullpen in middle relief. Say what you want about Ed Wade's screwups with relief pitchers, but paying Myers $12 million in 2009 to pitch the 8th inning is by FAR the worst allocation of resources in Philly in a long time. And the fact that Myers has been pissing and moaning about starting instead of closing is a freaking joke.
In fact, if I were the Phillies I would gladly shell out 5-6 million if someone would take him off my hands. Better than to spend $12 million to get 60 innings of relief... and it gets rid of what will clearly be a distraction if Myers goes all malcontent and sulks the rest of the year.
What a waste of promise though.
Hindsight is certainly 20/20 in this case.
No one wants to be "just a reliever" but you've got to be kidding if you can't understand lots of pitchers preferring to close. It has got to be a blast to run out there when the game is on the line and go all out for one inning.
Or, they like picking up the 12 Mil for all of the games they "close" with (relatively) safe two or three run leads.
Lots of relief pitchers want to close. There may well be others, but I can't think of any other starting pitcher off the top of my head who was still an effective starter and asked to close or expressed a desire to do it in any way. And I'm a big enough baseball fan to be sure then that there aren't "lots" of pitchers who prefer it to starting.
Arthur Rhodes, for one.
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