Marlins Trade Morrison to Mariners for RHP Carter Capps

[Erick]

There are better relief pitchers in the FA market

Who cost a lot more money and can't be controlled for as many years.

[tjfla]

There are better relief pitchers in the FA market

Yep u know us we like paying 4 million a season for a RP,we trade LoMo for something we can use for years and is cheap. He can come in a take Ryan Webb's spot

[Mainge]

This is horrible. He's 23 but his line is not good at all. I wouldn't want this coming out of our pen:

59 innings, 73 hits, 37 runs, 12 HRs, 23
BBs, 1.627 WHIP

What???

What's his BABIP against? He struck out over 10 and a half guys per 9 last year. I don't think this is a case of a guy with hittable stuff like that H/9 indicates, otherwise he wouldn't have struck out so many guys.

That seems like a flukey season. I'm willing to bet that he'll be better this year by virtue of regression to the mean.

[tjfla]

Actually just heard that Seattle upped the offer to Capps after they signed Hart because they realized Milwaukee needs a 1B now.

We wanted ML talent in return for LoMo which we got

[BigGameFish]

You're all right, I'm just disappointed at this return after hearing the other names tossed around before. I know Lomo isn't anything special. (Fan bias).

[Erick]

What's his BABIP against? He struck out over 10 and a half guys per 9 last year. I don't think this is a case of a guy with hittable stuff like that H/9 indicates, otherwise he wouldn't have struck out so many guys.

That seems like a flukey season. I'm willing to bet that he'll be better this year by virtue of regression to the mean.

.365 .BABIP, 18.8 HR/FB.

[MiamiHomer]

What's his BABIP against? He struck out over 10 and a half guys per 9 last year. I don't think this is a case of a guy with hittable stuff like that H/9 indicates, otherwise he wouldn't have struck out so many guys.

That seems like a flukey season. I'm willing to bet that he'll be better this year by virtue of regression to the mean.

BABIP against was .365 but LD/FB rate is high.

[Erick]

You're all right, I'm just disappointed at this return after hearing the other names tossed around before. I know Lomo isn't anything special. (Fan bias).

What names were being tossed around before that were exciting?

[Big Z]

In retrospect, his minor league numbers are pretty good over a short period of time.

[kylekash]

Capps had a flukey season from what I read on MLB Trade Rumors. Upper 90s avg on his fastball. 40% ground ball rate. He had 18.8% homerun to fly ball ratio and .365 BABIP. Should be better than his numbers from last year, that's for sure. Not a bad late inning guy.

[Mainge]

Signing Jones must've really hurt our bargaining power

Is this really the best we could get for LoMo? Seems like a terrible return at first instance.

I believe you guys just aren't realizing how bad he is.

[lou]

Who cost a lot more money and can't be controlled for as many years.

Yea. Like Ryan Webb.....

[emkayseven]

What names were being tossed around before that were exciting?

Plenty. They just weren't real and only existed when fans tweeted idiotic things to JCR

[Miamarlin21]

I don't understand why Seattle did this. They just signed Hart and still have Smirk. I would assume the latter is traded very soon (Price?)

[Erick]

Yea. Like Ryan Webb.....

That was probably dumb, but also probably irrelevant.