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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
He’s no Freddy Beene (throws A’s)!
The New York Yankees have reached an agreement on a minor league contract with pitcher Freddy Garcia, a baseball source told ESPN.com.
Garcia, 35, has a career 133-87 record with a 4.13 ERA in 12 big league seasons. He went 12-6 in 28 starts with the Chicago White Sox last season.
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Posted: February 01, 2011 at 02:22 AM | 23 comment(s)
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1. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: February 01, 2011 at 02:57 AM (#3740587)Wait, really? I honestly didn't even realize he was still in the league.
Too bad Mike Maroth retired.
That was my exact thought also. I thought this was a coming-off-rehab/out-of-unofficial-retirement signing.
I even looked him up on BBRef to make sure he wasn't 12-6 in 2009 and then on the shelf for 2010.
I wonder how many guys have signed a minor league deal coming off a 28 start 12-6 season.
At least Garcia can throw it over the plate, his progression have been interesting though, clearly steadily becomming more of a finess thrower over his career. last year he only threw 30.2% fastball o_O . guess there's a good reason though, since his average FB didn't crack 88 on the gun.
Garcia had a few starts against the Twins last year and he just kept throwing slop, followed by a change of pace slop, then a tailing slop, before coming back with a cutting slop. The last guy I remember pitching with his current stuff was Doug Jones.
Instead, Garcia managed to completely re-make himself as a finesse pitcher, and carve out a cromulent career for himself. That took a lot of intelligence and hard work. That's something to be applauded, not bashed on. This is not analogous to the Bartolo Colon situation at all.
And at no point were the White Sox ever unable to locate Freddy.
Has anyone definitively proven that Colon is only 43?
Are you saying he is a chubby chaser? Actually, they signed Andruw Jones too, so scratch the pitcher part.
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