A.K.A. the crappy Worrell, Mark was a Cardinal traded with Luke Gregerson to the Padres for Khalil Greene. Gregerson became a dynamo with 51 strikeouts, six walks and one of baseball's best swinging strike rates to go along with an usually non-fly ball heavy batted ball profile.
Khalil Greene went on to become even more Khalil Greene and Mark Worrell underwent Tommy John surgery. Prior to the surgery, Worrell has struck out 80 Triple-A hitters in 58 innings which if you're curious is good.
The strikeouts and the walks both dropped in 2010 as Worrell has worked his way back but an abysmal strand rate left his RA close to double digits and perhaps contributed to him being available for Zduriencik to poach.
Worrell, 27, is already with Tacoma's bullpen. If he regains his pre-Tommy John 2008 form, he makes for a nice cheap bullpen addition. The sort of depth moves the team needs to be making for when having a good bullpen will matter.
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I actually really like this signing.
His K rates were still decent this year. I think he has a very good shot at being better than much of our current bullpen.
Fuckmikereilly - July 5, 2010
Neat
OlSalty - July 5, 2010
If memory serves he has a funky delivery
Poochie - July 5, 2010 via mobile
Guess we'll probably change it until he sucks then
Aaron Campeau - July 5, 2010
Awww look who is all grumpy and mean.
abender20 - July 5, 2010
He has some reasoning there.
Austin Bibens-Dirkx turned out okay after he got in an organization that no longer cared about what kind of delivery he was using. Making parallels between the previous administration and the current one is probably a bit much though.
JY - July 6, 2010
I was talking about League
Aaron Campeau - July 6, 2010
This is actually a serious point.
The whole point of a coaching staff is to help the idiots who can’t help themselves. League is such an idiot it appears, and all our staff did was make him worse.
abender20 - July 6, 2010
Mariners!
Jeff Sullivan - July 6, 2010
I don't actually know anything about our major league pitchers.
JY - July 6, 2010
Woo?
wyte_lightning - July 5, 2010
I'm always for cheap bullpen buliding.
It was the only thing Bavasi was good at.
SethGrandpa - July 5, 2010
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