Here comes Joel Pineiro to save the season! I don’t know who the PTBNL will be, but the Red Sox are a smart organization, it’ll be some sleeper type who I probably like.
The series against the Brew Crew was fun, but I don’t know how three well played games changed the Cardinals mindset at the trade deadline. Grr….
[Azru update:] There’s no way to really spin this signing. If Pineiro turns in some good outings it will be because of luck and not skillset. He’s walking over 3.5 batters per inning and striking out just a touch over 5. He has some modicum of being a groundball pitcher but his OPS against is over .800 for three years running. If we gave up anything more than Michael Cooper, this wasn’t worth it.
[Azru @ 3:02] Finally seeing the official word that Chris Perez is headed to Memphis. He could be ready for a late inning role in the bigs next year if he performs well in August. It will interesting to see if he steps right into the closer’s role for Memphis. Falkenborg was there initially but Perez is obviously the organizations top choice to be the future closer.
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Please tell me this doesn’t demote Reyes so that I won’t have to do my “Michael Douglas in Falling Down” impersonation.
To paraphrase Return of the Jedi:
“Chewy, what happened to the Cardinals while I was frozen in carbonite?”
“Joel Piniero?! I’m out for a little while and all the sudden everyone’s harboring delusions of grandeur!”
Should have been more like this: (dumb HTML tags)
“Chewy, what happened to the Cardinals while I was frozen in carbonite?”
[Chewbacca says something]
“Joel Piniero?! I’m out for a little while and all the sudden everyone’s harboring delusions of grandeur!”
Chris Perez has been promoted to Memphis.
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