This installment of the bullpenternet has news, analysis, wild conjecturing, father-daughter games, and shopping!!
- Retrospective: former-DOE-daughter relieved former-MLB-no hitter-father in 1956 American Legion game: rambling article follows 51 years later. (Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune)
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Tagged: bullpenternet, Carlos Guevara, Edgar Osuna, Francisco Cordero, Gary Majewski, holidays, japan, Johnny Cueto, Keith Law, Kirk Saarloos, Loogy, mexico, Mike Stanton, the wisdom of kevin towers
A quick look at what others are saying about middle relief:
- ‘Anorexic’ Mets: Mets fans start sweating (and stop spell-checking) after they failed to sign Cordero or Linebrink. (Mets Fever)
- Yanks fans, on the other hand, are ecstatic that some other bonehead GM overpaid Linebrink before Cashman could. (The New York Yankees Baseball Blog)
- It may have been the going rate, but you don’t have to like the Linebrink and Cordero signings; why not try the “trial and error” method for constructing a bullpen? (Hardball Review)
- For his part, Keith Law sees a troubling trend this offseason: (ESPN Insider)
After Steve Karsay’s four-year deal, signed before the 2002 season, went bust, we saw just one three-year deal given to a reliever (Armando Benitez, who threw 118 innings with a 4.55 ERA during the deal) until B.J. Ryan’s five-year deal, signed in November of 2005. That month, we saw the destruction of the market’s reluctance to give long-term deals to relief pitchers, especially middle relievers, and the result has been a relative flood of three-, four-, and even five-year contracts for such free agents. After two winters of these contracts, however, the track record is already not good.
- Dbacks fans give out unsung hero awards to Edgar Gonzalez, Brandon Lyon, and their pitching coach, Bryan Price. (AZ Snakepit)
- Did you ever wonder who owns the “Most Consecutive Games with a Home Run Allowed by a Relief Pitcher” record? Yeah, me neither. (Recondite Baseball)
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Tagged: Brandon Lyon, bullpenternet, Edgar Gonzalez, Francisco Cordero, free agents, Keith Law, Scott Linebrink, stupid stats
