Rockies - Signed Redman, Kip
Colorado Rockies - Re-signed P
Mark Redman to a 1-year contract; signed P
Kip Wells to a 1-year contract.
Wells is in the $3 million range. I haven't seen anything for Redman yet, but I'd be shocked if it was more than $750K-$1M or so.
If someone here has Dan O'Dowd's ear, please tell the guy that Josh Fogg's 93 ERA+ the last 2 years and 1 good playoff start aren't really enough to invalidate the time-honored tradition of it not being a good plan to sign veteran starting pitchers that even the Pirates couldn't pretend were any good. The last time the Pirates dumped an established major league starting pitcher for being downright awful and had it come back to haunt them? Mike Bielecki, I believe.
Since some injury issues, the only positive thing Wells has done was to bring a smile to the faces of Cardinals ticketholders at the moment they looked in the newspaper or on the scoreboard and saw that the game they planned on/were attending didn't feature Mike Maroth as the starting pitcher. And Redman's season was worse! It takes a magical kind of suck to get a major league contract after a 1.63 WHIP and a K/9 under 5 at AAA.
Anyway, I have a proposition for O'Dowd. I'll barf on his desk for $100,000 and he'll come out of the bargain no worse off and his organization $3.5-$4 million richer!
2008 ZiPS Projection - Mark Redman
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W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA ERA+
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Projection 6 10 26 25 145 170 90 18 58 72 5.59 85
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Opt. (15%) 9 9 29 28 165 176 85 15 52 93 4.64 102
Pes. (15%) 4 9 22 21 116 149 87 20 52 50 6.75 70
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Top Comps: Shane Rawley, Dennis Rasmussen
2008 ZiPS Projection - Kip Wells
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W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA ERA+
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Projection 8 14 30 25 153 167 97 23 84 101 5.71 83
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Opt. (15%) 11 11 31 26 159 160 80 18 72 109 4.53 104
Pes. (15%) 5 12 23 19 111 134 82 21 69 65 6.65 71
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Top Comps: Steve McCatty, Dan Petry
Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 19, 2007 at 11:21 PM |
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Oops! Their ERA+s. I'll fix it in a minute.
Wakefield?
Even Bielecki as established might be a stretch. Before that, I think you have to go back to Jerry Reuss.
Oliver Perez? I don't know what you meant by "dumped". If you meant "released" then OP doesn't count, but if you meant "dumped as part of a crappy trade" than OP has already bit them in the arse.
Considering I am an Angel fan and not at all invested in the Mets or Pirates, I am way too excited to see Perez putting it back together. I grab him in my fantasy league every year because I have a soft spot for that guy.
than = then.
No edit feature on the TO?
Bummer.
Yeah, me neither.
Yeah. How could this dreck get attention, but Supoer Dave Ecksbourne to the Jays gets nothing?
Bronson Arroyo?
Too bad they don't know that in Japan.
Bear with it while they're disputing the call at second base. It gets better.
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