Starting Pitchers, Waivers, and The Marlins

[jonathan2323]

Livan Hernandez was realeased by the Mets.

Marlins should pick him up!

[Metes]

Yes, we need someone to clean out the locker rooms

[Bobbob1313]

The same Livan Hernandez of the 5.28 ERA since 06?

[nny]

The same Livan Hernandez of the 5.28 ERA since 06?

I'd rather have Livan's guaranteed 6 IP of 5 ERA baseball than Sean Wests 5 IP of 5 ERA baseball, especially since that would then mean West could go to AA and be at the level he needs to be at to get ready to be a MLB pitcher.

[dgriot]

Livan signs with the Nats, should start tomorrow.

[FishFanInPA]

Trevor Hoffman placed on Waivers. Why not get him? What his contract for a one year deal

[Ramp]

Trevor Hoffman rhp
1 year/$6M (2009)

* 1 year/$6M (2009)
o signed by Milwaukee as a free agent 1/8/09
o performance bonuses: $0.15M for 35 GF; $0.2M each for 38, 41, 45, 48 GF; $0.25M each for 50, 52 GF
o award bonuses: $50,000 each for All Star, Gold Glove, LCS MVP, Rolaids ($25,000 for 2nd place); $0.1M for WS MVP; $0.1M for Cy Young ($50,000 for 2nd place, $25,000 for 3rd); $0.1M for MVP ($50,000 for 2nd place, $25,000 for 3rd)
o perks: suite on road, four first-class round-trip air tickets from Milwaukee to San Diego once during season

[Swifty]

I feel like if you're the agent for a relief pitcher, you push harder for a 1st place MVP finish to be worth at least a million.

[wanks1212]

Trevor Hoffman was claimed off waivers. Rotoworld is speculating it's the Marlins, but there's nothing conclusive.

[nny]

by this just keep the money and we never offer relievers arbitration so unless they break the mold it's trading a lot for a Type A guy to not get draft picks plus with the position we're in it's better to have specs that are almost ready then to take a gamble on some guy and have him be in R ball for years and I mean not to be a debbie downer but we more or less need to be unbeatable the rest of the way if we want a chance going by BP's post season odds the average wild card win was 92 we'd have to go 26-9 the rest of the way with a .743 win percent and unless ricky is always ace ricky and volstad is always ace volstad and anibal is always ace anibal and west is always ace west we aren't doing that we were down to a 8.8% chance to make the playoffs and that was before todays game I know people are going to say no way you can't do that but I seriously gotta wonder about placing on our guys on waivers that won't be here next year though probalby better to wait until the offseason where we can hear offers for every single guy and see what gives what and rank the value of getting what we get for him while we keep this guy

[Swifty]

Punctuation would be awesome.

And, no, you don't deal Uggla/Cantu/Hermida now. You deal one (all?) in the offseason when teams can bid against each other. Anyone that needs Uggla now won't pay a stupid rate because, guess what, everyone one of our guys is "blockable" ahh, the wonders of not having a guaranteed contract beyond 2009.

[nny]

That's only 3 players

[Swifty]

Who on our team wouldn't get blocked?

Calero? We'll be lucky to get a B- prospect for him, I'd rather just keep him around to log innings, even if it's just in every JJ start.

Meyer? Pinto? We'll be lucky to get PTBNL's for them. At some point, you have a player who has more value to the organization than he'll return in a trade, that's the case with most of our guys. For all we know, most of them were put on waivers and pulled back already. When teams have more money on the disabled list than we do on our active roster, I have a hard time believing we have a plethora of players with value clearing.

[nny]

we have plenty of rp specs that could use the reps in place of Kiko. He also has value because he'll be a Type B FA. And we never offer arbitration to RPs. So unless they break the mold, we get more value out of him by trading him.

and under no circumstance should we trade Meyer. Even though he's probably a 4 era guy we have no lefty depth what so ever and we have him for nothing for two more years.

Possibility Paulino would get interest since he's shown he can hit fine again. And doesn't seem we want to pay for a back up catcher based off what we've done before.

It's too bad we've started Ross Gload for the past two weeks. If he was still sporting a mid 700 OPS we might have gotten something for him considering his versatility. Maybe something like one of what Hinske got. Oh well.

[FishFanInPA]

Mahay is a 13-year veteran who was DFA'd by the Royals this week after posting a 1-1 record with a 4.79 ERA in 41.1 innings in 41 appearances.

Any interest?