Diamondbacks - DFAed Herges and DLed Sunk Cost
Arizona Diamondbacks - Recalled P Brandon Medders and P Mike Koplove; placed P Russ Ortiz on the 15-day DL; designated P Matt Herges for assignment.
Remember the excitement of Russ Ortiz having his ERA in the 3s during the month of April? That excitement is, uh, gone because the last two months, Russ is trying to inpitch (well there has to be an opposite of outpitch, no?) Eric Milton and show that he’s the worst free agent signing this year. That race is still early, though, and Jaret Wright may still eventually come back and kick their asses.
Remember when Matt Herges was a Ken Phelpser? Well, he still is, just the 1990 kind. The Diamondbacks have been unfortunate with the scrap-heap reliever signings lately, with Herges and Ligtenberg combining for 27 runs in 18 innings. Medders is healthy and should do a better job and Koplove is better than he’s shown this season. Ortiz obviously won’t get 34 starts now, but I felt like projecting him anyways.
2005 ZiPS Projection - Brandon Medders
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Period W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Actual ‘05* 2 1 27 0 29 25 13 4 14 32 4.03
Rest ‘05 2 2 32 0 36 32 18 4 18 39 4.50
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* - Includes MLE
2005 ZiPS Projection - Russ Ortiz
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Period W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Actual ‘05 4 6 14 14 78 95 51 13 42 35 5.88
Rest ‘05 5 9 20 20 116 123 69 13 62 73 5.35
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Total ‘05 9 15 34 34 194 218 120 26 104 108 5.57
Dan Szymborski
Posted: June 19, 2005 at 01:20 PM |
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1. Psychedelic Red Pants Posted: June 19, 2005 at 02:42 PM (#1415451)I really really hope that it was Joe Jr. who made the big push in meetings to "go get" Ortiz. That might have him one step closer to the door.
In a sick way, I am actually hopeful that experiences like this one will make guys like Kendrick want to challenge his "baseball people" to utilize more objective performance analysis in making decisions. I can't imagine these owners allowing those guys under them to keep making decisions based ont the same methodology.
Jim Cassandro where are you????
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