A Pinstriped Logjam II: Who to send down when Joba comes up? August 3, 2007
Posted by Pablo Zevallos in Brian Bruney, Chris Britton, Edwar Ramirez, Jason Giambi, Jim Brower, Joba Chamberlain, Kyle Farnsworth, Mike Myers, Sean Henn.trackback
Joba Chamberlain is being converted into a reliever to help the Yankees this season down the stretch. No doubt that they could use him, but, like when Giambi comes back, this creates a bullpen logjam as well. These are the probable candidates to be DFA’d, or optioned, to make room for The Hutt.
(All statistics according to ESPN.com)
| B. Bruney 48G | 2W | 1L | 0SV | 5HLD | 40.2 IP |
35H | 15ER | 2HR | 29BB | 29K | 6.42K/9 | 1.57WHIP |
3.32ERA |
See those walks? Typical of a guy with a high heater. Doesn’t have much of an offspeed or breaking pitch either–just mostly fastballs. As mentioned in the previous Logjam Edition, he has as many walks as K’s, and a man with his heater should strike out a man an inning, not 6.42/9. The WHIP is very high–and Torre doesn’t have much confidence in him, as can be told by the innings to games ratio. He has also been used in mop-up issues, and has given up a lot of runs of late.
| K. Farnsworth 46G | 1W | 1L | 0SV | 11HLD | 43.1IP | 49H | 7HR | 21BB | 29K | 6.02K/9 | 1.62 WHIP |
4.78ERA |
Now, here we’re not talking about a man who just has a 100MPH fastball, but has a nasty slider and good bite to his splitter…but has no command or control. His attitude sucks, and he could be traded, and, if Cashman is that desperate, DFA’d. Also, if he would pitch a full-fledged 215 innings as a starter, he would give up 35 HR’s, which would have led the American league last year…not good
| Sean Henn 21G | 2W | 0L | 0SV | 2HLD | 25.1IP | 22H | 3HR | 16BB | 19K | 6.75K/9 | 1.50WHIP | 4.26ERA |
Nothing really wrong with him. Throws decently hard (93-94MPH), is a lefty, giving him more chances at The Show. However, he’s a long man/starter, a Ron Villone type, so he could succeed Villone next year when he leaves. He has a good slider, a decent changeup, but gives up a lot of walks and has a high WHIP as a result. If he can lower his walks and baserunners his ERA will lower as well. More strikeout should be expected.
| Mike Myers 52G | 0W | 2L | 0SV | 4HLD | 39.0IP | 35H | 3HR | 15BB | 19K | 4.38K/9 | 1.28WHIP | 2.54ERA |
This man is a sidearming 38 years old, and has a 77MPH fastball, as well as a 68MPH slider with less sweep than before. He has a .296 BAA against lefties, with .358OBP, and he’s supposed to be a lefty specialist. However, he has .187 BAA against righties, with a .262OBP. Weird, eh? There are NL teams interested in him, and he can very easily be claimed. He is in the last year of his contract, and should retire at the end of this year.
Easily, or two of these men can be demoted, and then Joba can be promoted with another truly deserving Scranton reliever–Jim Brower, Chris Britton, or Edwar Ramirez
I’m so glad Joba is the only one to work out.