I dont know if you guys saw the little piece by Joe Strauss on mlbtraderumors.com, but he said that Mo and TLR are going to meet along with some other staff members and talk about the possibility of signing Pedro Martinez as a closer. Does anybody know the logic to this? Why would we sign this guy? He throws 88-91 mph (91 most recently). We cant rely on this guy to throw lollipop offspeed pitches or mid to upper 80's 2-seam fastballs in the ninth inning. If we thought last year was miserable in regards to the closers job/role, this would be an absolute nightmare. I think we should stay in house to decide who should close for us (which was the plan all along, right?). Motte and Perez have very bright futures as closers. What is so bad in deciding to have a rookie close games for us? Does anybody remember what Wainwright did in 2006? He only dominated in postseason play and won us the world series. I know these guys dont have the offspeed stuff like Wainwright, but what happened to having confidence in these young studs that we have? This could only help them, not hurt them. What would hurt them is if we went and signed a washed-up starting pitcher who was good four years ago and rely on him in the 9th inning which has been our absolute downfall in recent years. We cannot stand for this as Cardinal fans. My friend once said, "It is not a Cardinals offseason or a Cardinals trade deadline if we dont try to get an old "proven" veteran". I am so sick of this. Please, voice your opinion about this.
Also, we signed Denys Reyes today. Now this solidifies the other left-handed reliever spot. I was very high on him and I was wondering if we were interested because he is a great left-handed reliever. Now we dont have to rely on the likes of Ron Villone and Randy Flores (thank God that they are gone anyway) or these other guys who are duking it out down in FL for the last lefty spot in the pen. I liked Flores, but last year he was miserable and there is no way that these other guys could come in and get the job done. Well, at least not this year. Great signing Mo.
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With my limited baseball knowlegdge, I dont think Pedro as a closer is a bad idea. I think he can come in and pitch 1-2 innings of solid effective stuff. I would actually prefer seeing him in a closer role because that would also limit his injuries since he has become injury prone as of late.
ReplyDeletehe has also pitched well in the WBC. why not have him close for a season? what harm can that really do? it might even be better for if/when we lose a member of our rotation, we have a proven pitcher filling in as a 5th starter. then we can insert perez or motte as our closer.
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