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Originally Posted by VAChief
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.
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They really should have a rule where Cecil and/or Broxton are only allowed to enter into clean innings and if they need to be relieved, only Cecil/Broxton can relieve the other one.
That way the two of them can stop letting other people's inherited runners score AND if they do come in with runners on, it'll be the other shitty reliever's runners that way they'll both come to feel the pain that the starters feel every time one of those clowns comes in, allows both inherited runners to score and manages to squeak out of the inning only adding a single tally to their own ledger.
As bad as those guys have been, the damage they've done to their fellow pitcher's ERAs has been even worse.
They just suck something awful. but hey, multi-year deals for aging middle-relievers always work out nicely, don't they?