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Yahoo! Sports: MLB - Red Sox sign RHP Wakefield to two-year contract
Duquette is essentially getting as many potential starters as possible into the fold. Wakefield, Frank Castillo, Pete Schourek, Bret Saberhagen and several minor league options like JinHo Cho, Sunny Kim, and Juan Pena.
Given the big dollars chasing so-so starters like Kevin Appier, Darren Dreifort and others, this may not be a bad move. It would be a challenging study, but you could certainly look at the chances of one of these lower tier guys breaking out a la Kent Bottenfield or Garrett Stephenson. It may turn out much more cost effective to sign four to five of these guys and let the middling free agent pitchers go.
And what the hell has happened to Ismael Valdes? He hasn't been great lately, but he is certainly worth a look. I'm guessing that teams were waiting till after arbitration to take a look at him.
If the Sox pick up one of Cone, Ramon Martinez or Valdes, I'll like their rotation a lot more than I do right now. Let's say they get Cone, the Sox would have Pedro, Arrojo, Ohka, and then two of
Paxton Crawford
Pete Schourek
Frank Castillo
Tim Wakefield
Bret Saberhagen
David Cone
My preference would then be to pitch Crawford and Wakefield in middle to long relief and then start whichever two of the other guys win a job. Then you've got more options like Kim, Cho and Pena in AAA.
That is seven slots and then you have Lowe, Beck, Pichardo, Garces and Sang Lee for the bullpen. The Sox are due for some luck this year, so they could end up with an abundance of decent arms. Or it could be Pedro and the five-inning gang.
Duquette is essentially getting as many potential starters as possible into the fold. Wakefield, Frank Castillo, Pete Schourek, Bret Saberhagen and several minor league options like JinHo Cho, Sunny Kim, and Juan Pena.
Given the big dollars chasing so-so starters like Kevin Appier, Darren Dreifort and others, this may not be a bad move. It would be a challenging study, but you could certainly look at the chances of one of these lower tier guys breaking out a la Kent Bottenfield or Garrett Stephenson. It may turn out much more cost effective to sign four to five of these guys and let the middling free agent pitchers go.
And what the hell has happened to Ismael Valdes? He hasn't been great lately, but he is certainly worth a look. I'm guessing that teams were waiting till after arbitration to take a look at him.
If the Sox pick up one of Cone, Ramon Martinez or Valdes, I'll like their rotation a lot more than I do right now. Let's say they get Cone, the Sox would have Pedro, Arrojo, Ohka, and then two of
Paxton Crawford
Pete Schourek
Frank Castillo
Tim Wakefield
Bret Saberhagen
David Cone
My preference would then be to pitch Crawford and Wakefield in middle to long relief and then start whichever two of the other guys win a job. Then you've got more options like Kim, Cho and Pena in AAA.
That is seven slots and then you have Lowe, Beck, Pichardo, Garces and Sang Lee for the bullpen. The Sox are due for some luck this year, so they could end up with an abundance of decent arms. Or it could be Pedro and the five-inning gang.
posted by Sean Foran # 9:22 AM 
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