GREAT NEWS EVERYONE!!!
In what is clearly the best move of the off season, GM Jack Zduriencik has picked up 24-year-old RHP relief pitcher named Jesus Delgado from the Florida Marlins.
This is just even more proof to shove in the face of all those negative nancys that Jack Zduriencik is master of GMing and clearly worthy of the utmost praise and adulation. If you will all queue up in an orderly fashion, I will begin handing out numbered tickets which entitle you to personally grovel at his feet over the next few weeks. For a small $500 fee, you can do even more than that. I know you all want to, because this is the move that will put us over the top.
Long live the Mariner dynasty! Viva la reliever revolution!
Unreasonable love aside, Delgado is what he is, a hard throwing 24-year-old righty from Florida who spent the majority of last year being exactly average in AA. The Marlins probably placed him on waivers to save $12 on uniform lettering. It's an inconsequential move for the time being.
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Praise Jesus!
ThundaPC - March 15, 2009
Yawn
Goose - March 15, 2009
I hate it when we add potentially useful players at zero risk too.
JI - March 15, 2009
Yawn != I dislike the move.
Goose - March 16, 2009
Then what did you mean?
JI - March 16, 2009
That it was a boring move?
Dewey N - March 16, 2009
Wouldn't that be better indicated by a non-comment
To me “Yawn” = offensively boring", since yawning at something is a rude action.
JI - March 16, 2009
There is nothing in this move to be excited about
hence a yawn.
Edgar for Pres - March 17, 2009
Awesome.
BrettJMiller - March 15, 2009
Praise the lord!
Robert - March 15, 2009
This post just rubs me the right way.
.Taylor - March 15, 2009
Woohoo, my first LL meme.
HARRYP09 - March 15, 2009
It doesn't count until we've run it into the ground.
.Taylor - March 15, 2009
It's off to a hot start.
HARRYP09 - March 15, 2009
This definitely wasn't Z's best move
Chad Cordero’s signing show’d WAY more foresight and brilliance than this move. That signing will clearly be in the top ten best moves ever. This is borderline top twenty at best.
Ezzra - March 15, 2009
The Chad Cordero signing is more obvious
Corco - March 15, 2009
Oh shit it's world series time now bitches
OlSalty - March 15, 2009
$1000* to anyone who can come up with a picture of a cat being rubbed the wrong way.
*not really.
HARRYP09 - March 15, 2009
*not really.
crap.
msb - March 15, 2009
I thought all cats were banned.
JI - March 15, 2009
I thought it was just adorable ones.
Not disgruntled ones.
msb - March 15, 2009
LOLcats, not cats in general as I understand it.
Aaron Campeau - March 15, 2009
Thank goodness
Talk about a disgruntled cat.
Kirsten Schlewitz - March 16, 2009
I think my disgruntled cat needs to meet your disgruntled cat.
Joint disgruntling.
msb - March 16, 2009
My disgruntled cat beats all other disgruntled cats.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - March 16, 2009
How dare you.
Aaron Campeau - March 16, 2009
Let's show the running dogs in the imperialist south the power of true unity
Zduriencik, Zduriencik, little flower, beloved by all the youth
(Seriously, this is a great pick-up. High upside guy who hasn’t been pitching long.)
marc w - March 15, 2009
Hail the arrival of skinny Jesus
Nick S - March 15, 2009
Maybe you could make one of those field charts that you did with the Nationals outfielders
with the Mariners’ reliever depth. And Mark Lowe has to be at 3rd base.
Fin - March 15, 2009
So how many of these guys are expected to stick around past March
and what does that mean for developing relievers within the system? Not that I’m overly concerned about minor league relievers being held back due to an overabundance of AAA arms.
I’m just curious because it seems like there have been enough new guys brought in to fully stock two full bullpens and it’s not like the Mariners were plum out of relievers. Are we going to try playing some of the in the outfield or something? Come to think of it, can we try to work something out with the Nats? If all players have some value then enough relievers with upside should be worth Johnson. I’m just sayin.
Bearskin Rugburn - March 15, 2009
I think several of these pickups are meant to be insurance for mid-season
In case the bullpen we start the season with falls apart or there are a lot of injuries.
Like Cordero won’t be ready for a long time (if ever) and there seem to be too many arms in camp right now to thoroughly vet out who is actually the best before the season starts, so I’m guessing several of them will be auditioning through April/May in Tacoma.
OlSalty - March 16, 2009
I get the idea behind stockpiling arms
but you need to keep them all busy somehow so my question was more about what they’re all going to do with themselves until they’re needed. Tacoma can’t have enough room in their pen for all the guys who won’t make the team.
Bearskin Rugburn - March 16, 2009
Actually, Tacoma has a lot of room in the pen
as does West Tennessee. And the bullpen for Peoria in extended spring training and the complex league has room for a bullpen of infinity. To the extent the organization ends up with more pitchers they want to keep than bullpen slots in the high minors, the surplus stay in Arizona rehabbing from “general soreness” until a spot opens up elsewhere.
G_ - March 16, 2009
Praise the LordDa!
sergey606 - March 15, 2009
Pfffffffft...
And then nothing turned itself inside out…
TroutMask - March 15, 2009
Genius + Love = GMZ
katal - March 16, 2009
I see what you did there.
marc w - March 16, 2009
Buy 10 middle relievers
Get one free?
Gihyou - March 16, 2009
If you get the whole set you also get the limited edition collector's card
pdb - March 16, 2009
Aaron Heilman?
.Taylor - March 16, 2009
Denny Stark
Bearskin Rugburn - March 16, 2009
With six you get eggroll.
Aaron Campeau - March 16, 2009
Now that's a movie I haven't thought of in a very long time.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - March 16, 2009
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