[Miles]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

It's what I've argued that the Cardinals do for years. The best relievers are repurposed starters. I've said it over and over again. Look at what the Astros have done this year. They've taken guys like Colin McHugh and Brad Peacock, who were shitty starting pitchers, and turned them into excellent relief pitchers. The Royals did it by accident with Davis and Hochevar after they failed miserably in the rotation. The Cardinals have done something similar with players earlier in their development. Guys like Gomber, Poncedeleon, and Hudson all profile to the back end of a rotation, but when they can blow it out for an inning or two, their stuff plays better. Hell, look at the difference between Mayers in the pen compared to starting. Eventually, one or two of them will have more value in the rotation, but as long as they have velocity and good control, they're usable for an inning or two, which is a damned sight better than paying $26 million per year to Cecil, Gregerson, and Holland, The Three ****sketeers.

The other frustrating thing about all three of those guys...The Three ****sketeers, is they were coming of either down seasons or in the case of Holland coming off a late seaason implosion. Given the variance in retred releivers, I'm completely fine signing or trading cases of beer for these types of guys and seems like Joceketty did well doing exactly that. Key difference is they should be dumpster dives and not big money or legit assets given up. Even worse is they were supposed to be relied up and had/have the inerta of sunk cost money tied to them.