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I just would rather see them dumpster diving for younger options who could help in the future.
That's sorta it, though. A dude who has an ERA near 3 over the last 3 years and isn't 37 isn't a dumpster dive. Even Brad Hand, who's in that range roughly but doinked his way to 3 teams over the course of last season, got $6 million.If you want to dumpster dive, Jimmy Cordero and Wander Suero are out there but, uh, there's a reason for that.
Not sure what a minor league contract is but all I am saying is maybe they could have spent that elsewhere. Take a flyer on someone younger. And I don’t mean Wander Suero who is 30. In any event it’s not a big deal for the season. Does not change the likely outcome. However signing guys like him and Parra is all about ticket sales.
Clippard assigned to Rochester
Clippard has been awful as of late at Rochester. Era now almost 8.00
had real hope for this signing.
He's 37 years old, why on earth would you have hope?? I understand he's been decent the last few years but pinning hopes on aging players (cough Cruz cough) is nonsensical.
looked like he had figured out how to pitch with declining velocity. The pitcher v thrower. The drop offi in performance has been steep
yea but at a certain point they can't get away with it anymore, age waits for no man. Or something I don't know but I am not getting my hopes up for anybody over like, 35 and even then I'm skeptical.
Yea there is a reason no other team signed him on the cheap.
Clippard pitched 1.1 innings of hitless relief today, with two strikeouts. Bit by bit, one inning of relief at a time, Clippard has reduced his ERA to 4.02.https://www.milb.com/gameday/red-wings-vs-red-sox/2022/05/15/664400#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=664400
He had a bad 10 day stretch in the second half of April, otherwise he’s been decent
at this point, do you think it is a roster squeeze? Looking at the 40 man roster, the nats have a lot of pitchers on the 60 day IL that will have to be added back, perhaps in June. In terms of the 40 man guys in the minors, there's a lot of recent pick ups from waivers or trades, plus Evans Lee who they like. Maybe you move Adon back to the minors and start Espino / Ramirez / Rogers, but that doesn't answer the 40 man problem.
I think Clippard is preying on guys who can’t hit off speed crap. AAA is full of such players, MLB isn’t.
Maybe, but - I guess because he was playing for anonymous, non Eastern time franchises - people seem to be missing that Clippard has an ERA under 3 in the majors over the last 2 years. You absolutely can get by with well-located junk in MLB, especially for only an inning.