Blaine Boyer DFA'd by Atlanta

How long until he's in our pen?

almost 3 years ago schlongky 13 comments 0 recs |

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Projected FIP a little over 4. Decent K’s and BB’s. More GB’s than FB’s. Better than average LD%. 93 mph fastball and a pretty good slider. He’d be an asset to the bullpen (unless there is something wrong with him like an injury).

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by Scott McKinney on Apr 18, 2009 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

if he's that good

there’s not doubt Moore will pick him up, which will be good, but that will make his Farnsworth extravanganza all the more infuriating; cf. Bloomquist/Huglett.

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by Matt Klaassen on Apr 18, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions

The problem is, where do you put him?

If the Braves DFA’d him, then I’m sure he’s out of options. So if the Royals acquire him, they have to make room for him on the 25-man roster. If I were the GM, that would be easy (bye bye Horacio). But I don’t think Dayton Moore is in that kind of headspace right now.

And I want to make it clear that I’m no Blaine Boyer expert. I know his stats plus a little more. I can’t give a good scouting report on him. He might be a pain in the ass. He might have a horrible work ethic. He might have Runelvys Hernandez-like habits. He might be injured or be very injury prone. I just don’t know enough about him to know for sure how valuable he is. But if you can get him cheap and have room for him, then I think he’d be good to have.

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by Scott McKinney on Apr 18, 2009 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh, and I hope the last few months (and the rest of the season) teach Moore some kind of lesson

He’s been able to put together a good bullpen despite wasting money on Farnsworth and HoRam, who were both unnecessary and detrimental. Hopefully next time he’ll eschew the multi-million dollar contract to the vet(s) and stick with the inexpensive talent which he’s so good at finding.

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by Scott McKinney on Apr 18, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions

as much as Moore has driven me crazy the last few months

the more in my clamer moments I realize that when you say “average” youu doen’t mean “fairly optimal,” you mean “the average GM isn’t very smart with vets” or something. Which, on one hand, gives me more hope about Moore fielding a decent team, but, on the other hand, doesn’t gives me less hope about him not blowing cash on “proven” relievers, HR/RBI guts, etc.

I don’t keep up with the roster stuff, and the transaction rules are more baffling to me thann anything. but I’ll state the obvious: DFA/waive/whatever TPJ. It won’t happen, but that’s the most obvious solution if HoRam is out and Mahay isn’t tradable or whatever.

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by Matt Klaassen on Apr 18, 2009 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions

in my clamer moments

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by Sweep_the_Leg on Apr 18, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Average

the more in my clamer moments I realize that when you say "average" youu doen’t mean "fairly optimal," you mean "the average GM isn’t very smart with vets" or something.

Something like that. He’s not average with regard to FA signings. He’s poor, very poor. He’s absolutely awful with regard to position player FA’s. And I don’t expect him to get much better. But I say he’s average when everything is taken into account (FA’s, draft, trades, waiver pickups, international work, adding staff, adding a minor league affiliate, etc.). Every GM has his pluses and minuses. Some GM’s usually make good choices with regard to FA’s, but they don’t draft well. That’s less visible, but is at least as big of a weakness as Moore’s problem with FA’s.

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by Scott McKinney on Apr 19, 2009 2:36 AM EDT up reply actions