Rudy Seanez is back in the majors after signing a one-year deal with the Phillies. The lede of this story reads:
The first paragraph then begins: “Phillies manager Charlie Manuel can vividly recall having Rudy Seanez on his club in Triple-A almost 20 years ago in the Indians organization.” (emphasis mine)
I guess by “some help,” the author liberally means a really old player that is now inadequate at pitching baseballs.
Categories: post by johnstevens
Tagged: Philadelphia Phillies, Rudy Seanez
Dodgers release Rudy Seanez. Score one for team “Signing Old Relievers is Not Wise.” At least Seanez’s contract with the Dodgers was mostly incentives-based, allowing them to kick him to the curb without much hesitancy. ‘Fraid I can’t say the same for some of the other absurd signings we saw this past off-season.
Categories: post by johnstevens
Tagged: free agents, Rudy Seanez
Old Red Sox disaster and LA Dodger RHP Rudy Seanez signed a $550,000 base salary deal (with up to $1.3MM in incentives) for a shot at getting his arm destroyed by new Dodger manager, Joe Torre.
Categories: post by Gnopple
Tagged: joe torre, politics, Rudy Seanez
I like old people. But why do teams want veteran free-agent middle-relief pitchers so badly? Today’s example comes from an article discussing the Rangers’ off-season needs:
They want to add a veteran relief pitcher who can work late in the game...
They have interest in Eric Gagne coming back as their closer, but they may stick with Otsuka or Wilson as their ninth-inning guy and concentrate on finding a setup reliever. There is depth on the free-agent market in that area, including David Riske, Octavio Dotel, LaTroy Hawkins, Matt Herges, Ron Mahay, Rudy Seanez and Doug Brocail.
31-year-old Riske is a nice arm, and hasn’t exhibited Linebrink-like decline yet. After that, despite various degrees of success last year, there’s a lot of mileage on the arms of Dotel (33), Hawkins (34), Herges (37), Mahay (36), Seanez (39), Brocail (40). As I’ve written before, having these guys in your bullpen isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But veterans — like Linebrink — require more money and more security. To fill that last hole or two in the bullpen, a team would be wiser to take its chances with young pitchers who they won’t be stuck with if things don’t work out.
Categories: post by johnstevens
Tagged: David Riske, free agents, LaTroy Hawkins, Matt Herges, Octavio Dotel, Ron Mahay, Rudy Seanez, Scott Linebrink, Texas Rangers, veterans
