Baltimore - Signed Reed
Baltimore Orioles - Signed P Steve Reed to a 1-year contract with a club option.
It really is sad that Reed isn’t likely to get the 1000 career IP required to make the baseball-reference leaderboards - Reed, if he had 162 more innings, would pop in tied for 16th in baseball history in ERA+, 4th among all relievers. Reed’s also never had an ERA+ worse than 110, a pretty impressive feat in its own right. Eric Milton will make a yearly salary with the Reds only a million less a year than Reed has been paid his entire career to date.
Reed will be 40 this year, but nothing’s come close to stopping him yet. He’ll make the Orioles, who will definitely go with 12 pitchers now (though they would have anyway) and will continue to be a solid reliever that nobody will notice. I always appreciate when the Orioles sign players that I can root for like Reed instead of assuming that I want to see players that were good 10 years ago due to nostalgia.
Reed, Steve - 2005 ZiPS Projection
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W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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5 4 65 0 67 72 31 5 19 38 4.16
Dan Szymborski
Posted: January 24, 2005 at 08:06 PM |
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1. Didi Dodo Doodoo (1k5v3L)This puts Julio on the trade block. Julia, Julia, Julia.
Ryan's going to close this year anyway, right? If so, the Orioles would be wise to shop Julio while his value is inflated. Cameron for Julio?
Is Jerry Hairston a better 2Bman than his younger brother? I thought the O's were planning to put him in CF for this year. That being said, I'd rather see Jerry Hairston in CF than Jeromy Burnitz. Ugh.
Is Jerry Hairston a better 2Bman than his younger brother? I thought the O's were planning to put him in CF for this year. That being said, I'd rather see Jerry Hairston in CF than Jeromy Burnitz. Ugh.
I always thought he seemed to be a very good 2Bman. Prospectus says...he's OK. no idea how others have evaluated him.
i don't know much about little Hairston, but i always see him referred to as a 3B or even OF (i thought), so I'd assume if he has played much 2B it's not expected he would stay there.
But speaking of relief pitchers that sadly will not make the 1000 IP cutoff for ERA+ leadership, what about poor Mark Eichhorn? Career 142 ERA+ over 885.7 innings. AND the guy put up a 246 ERA+ in 1986 over 157 IP. Eichy got no respect.
Sorry for the on-topic comment, my first BTF post. Woohoo!
Is Delgado some kind of college football recruit who's playing to the media until national signing day?
2nd only to Steve Kline, I guess.
Eichhorn's 1986 is one of the great relief seasons of all time and is totally forgotten today. If not for Clemens, he would have had a good case for Cy Young. Instead, he finished a distant third in the Rookie of the Year voting, behind a left fielder with a 115 OPS+ (Canseco) and a first baseman with a 119 OPS+ (Joyner).
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