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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And that's not getting into the fact that Broxton is only on this team because Matheny insists on 'veteran help' in relief, even if said veteran sucks balls.
I remember BRC asking why I was so bent out of shape years ago when we traded for Broxton and I just couldn't get him to understand that it's because Broxton is an objectively bad pitcher who ANY system in baseball should be able to produce at the league minimum. Instead the Cardinals have given the guy several million.
Tui sits in Memphis despite finally starting to figure things out. Jon Broxton, 'tested veteran', continues to give games away because he has no fastball command and no off-speed pitch. He's effectively a zero pitch pitcher. But hey, he's old so he has that going for him.
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Trading for him is one thing...resigning him was even more unfathomable. I could partially excuse the logic of trying him out, maybe they saw something that they felt they could salvage. However, he was straight a##. His stats were deceiving in that he benefited somewhat from better relievers bailing his ass out. Good hitters he will just walk because he knows he can't get anything by them, and against weaker hitters it''s just a matter of their batting practice law of averages. He still throws hard, but he has no movement and even worse nothing to make them think about anything else. Even if he had a moving two seamer he could control he would be serviceable. He adds zero to the bullpen.