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Don't know that I'm that crazy about it ... although I'm glad we didn't trade DDJ to somewhere like Cincy or NYY where he'd probably hit 20 HR's next year and everyone would go nuts. Sucks that his injury probably hammered his trade value. And I guess there's no guarantee he'd make it through next year healthy. I also wonder how much it hurts his value that he doesn't hit for as much power as a lot of corner OF's.
I'm not overwhelmed with who we got but it's not that bad either I don't think. I certainly wouldn't get caught up in Royals Corners' usual hysteria. Mazzaro apparently throws low-90's, apparently has a good sinker. Sounds like our kinda guy. Everybody looks at the stats at face value, not that you shouldn't... but he actually pitched pretty well for most of last season and ran out of gas at the end. He had 3.61 ERA/72 K/107.1 IP as of August 26th, and then got destroyed by the Yankees and that was all she wrote.
12 of his 18 starts were 6 IP/3 ER or less, including 11 of his last 12 before that Yankee game. Who knows if he can repeat all that, and he walks too many guys. But at the same time he just turned 24. He's really not much older than Marks.
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