Thursday, April 18, 2013
Brewers re-sign former reliever Francisco Rodriguez
(www.jsonline.com)
posted on April 18, 2013 at 10:48 AM by RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) to brewers, francisco rodriguez, free agents, minor league deal, relievers
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Read More...As a possible alternative should they seek to add an experienced relief pitcher to their roster at some point, the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday re-signed Francisco Rodriguez to a minor-league deal.
The deal is a no-risk move by the Brewers, who have 30 days to summon Rodriguez, 31, to the majors or grant his release. Rodriguez, who pitched the last 1 1/2 seasons for the Brewers, was not offered a job as a free agent over the off-season and has been in his native Venezuela. He did pitch for ...
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1. Brian C posted on November 20, 2012 at 02:46 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Wow, you have to go back two whole years to find such a superhuman feat.
The limitations on pitcher workload were good in the beginning, but then they went too far.
And they traded the guy that they got from the Rangers for Geovany Soto back to Texas for former first-round draft pick Barret Loux (picked by Arizona in '09 but didn't sign after he was revealed to be damaged goods in a physical).
Ken Harvey had two full seasons of mediocre play, in the second of which he was an All-Star, and played 12 more games after that.
Junior Spivey was an All-Star in his only season as a starter, but played three partial seasons after that.
Dave Nilsson played several years, and was finally an All-Star at age 29, and then went to Japan never to return.
Looking back on these old All-Star games, 1999 stands out for a peculiar profusion of hitters I never thought were stars in the least. Alex Gonzalez? Ed Sprague? Nilsson? Ron Coomer? Jose Offerman? Brian Jordan? John Jaha? Jay Bell and Jeromy Burnitz were stars, but this year they were in the starting lineup?
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