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Originally Posted by tmw4h5
The Indians announced yesterday that they've agreed to a minor league deal with former big leaguer Kyle Davies. The right-hander did not receive an invite to Major League Spring Training, however. Davies, still just 30 years old, spent the 2013 season pitching with the Twins' minor league system as he recovered from shoulder surgery. Davies posted a 3.41 ERA with 7.3 K/9 and 2.5 BB/9 across three levels, though he didn't pitch at Triple-A. He has a 5.59 ERA in 768 Major League innings between the Braves and Royals.
The greatest day ever.
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HIRAM! Awesome. Hopefully, he can set some records with the Indians... keep elevating that ERA so he ends up with the clear worst ERA of all time from a starter with more than 500 IP. Or whatever that was.
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Originally Posted by Bowser
Well hopefully David Glass doesn't get all puffy chested and drop a decree of NO SANTANA, PERIOD if the opportunity arises to get him back.
Chen is a perfect situational guy. I'm not interested in how well he performed as a started when Mendoza flamed out last year (and he did).
Chen's strength is out of the bullpen at this point in his career.
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I'd imagine the plan is that Chen will make 10-15 starts and then pitch out of the bullpen as the long guy. Basically the same role he was pretty effective in a year ago.
If KC can use this to cover some of the innings Duffy is not going to be able to toss, it makes a lot of sense. Danny is probably capped at 130 IP or so, and even that is pushing it. That means you need to cover about 10 starts out of his potential spot.
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Originally Posted by dallaschiefsfan
Santana aside, I'm just hoping that Duffy and Ventura have the type of spring where it's embarrassingly negligent on Ned's part to put Chen in the rotation. I like him coming out of the pen and being the spot starter for when those young guys need a week off or when they get dead arm.
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Use him at the front end, and you keep those young starters fresh all year.
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Originally Posted by alnorth
Agreed, Santana's agent is an idiot.
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Yeah, he has really miscalculated and done poorly. He's a strange guy who apparently has like 5 clients. Not sure how he makes a living on that (unless he has absolutely NO overhead).
It's hard to imagine an agent performly as poorly as this guy has. One of the reasons I can't fault them too much for NOT seeing this downturn in the Santana market coming.