Quality logic involved in this signing:
Without referring to them directly, the GM also took a jab at the Mets’ past use of injured reliever Pedro Feliciano, saying more than once that overworked lefty “was abused” in recent seasons.
Feliciano, who hopes to resume throwing Wednesday or Thursday after a 10-day shutdown with what the team announced was a strained rotator cuff, set a big-league record with 266 appearances from 2008-10 before opening this season on the disabled list. Feliciano added that he doesn’t blame the Mets for his current injury.
“The use pattern was abusive,” Cashman said, adding the timeframe for a return remains at least late April or early May. “The MRI shows what he’s got, and that leads us to believe all this is resolvable. It’s not a major issue. It’s a timing issue.”
Asked then why the Yankees signed the risky Feliciano to a two-year, $8 million contract over the winter, Cashman said: “It was a thin market when you’re out there looking for lefties, and he was one of the better ones out there. You don’t typically run to sign up guys who’ve been used like that. But it was a limited market.”
So who’s the bigger fool: The Mets or the Yankees?
18 Comments
Luke April 2, 2011 22:53
Cash bugged out.
R2-D2 April 2, 2011 22:58
Cashman drinking the tiger blood. Fuck it at least he dissed that disgrace of an organization the Metropolitans
Ace April 2, 2011 23:08
No one, he’ll be fine and is use to playing in a big market and just needs to heal.
CC was abused by the Brewers remember, he pitched on 3 days rest often. It angered me to see the Brewers treating him like a rental. CC got them to postseason but had nothing for the playoffs.
Yankees will take care of this guy~
Rex Ryan's Wife's Feet April 2, 2011 23:16
Is it too late to offer him a third year and two opt out clauses? Let’s add a draft pick also. cause that’s how we roll.
Jim Rome April 2, 2011 23:42
He put up an xFIP right around 3.60 over those same years, covering ~180 innings. I think he’s worth the $8MM risk.
Uh huh April 2, 2011 23:45
Yup, really looks like he was worth the risk.
Warner Wolf April 3, 2011 00:55
I don’t remember Cashman ever been concerned when Torre use to threaten our guys lives if they didn’t go out on the mound.
Scott Proctor April 3, 2011 00:57
Did someone say abuse?
Tanyon Sturtze April 3, 2011 00:59
I heard it too.
Paul Quantrill April 3, 2011 07:56
I was locked in a basement after my outings.
Ramiro Mendoza April 3, 2011 08:04
I was raped repeatedly by Don Zimmer.
Tom Gordon April 3, 2011 09:51
Can I take these chains off yet???
Typical Red Sox fan April 3, 2011 01:17
Okajima is one tuff Jap lefty. He wontons his battas into sushi.
[Censored] April 3, 2011 07:25
It’s fucked up that the mets would abuse this guy and then laugh about it. Every pitcher asks for the ball every day. I know we did it to multiple pitchers, but at least we never joked about running peoples careers.
TypicalRAB April 3, 2011 16:17
Ever try my Thai curry peanut sauce?
TSJC loves it.
Max Sexappeal April 4, 2011 09:54
randy choate could have been had for cheap..and he is healthy and does a great job as a loogy
Box607 April 4, 2011 11:46
The best part of the story was the response from the Mets:
“They didn’t know that when they signed him?” Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen said. “I feel badly that someone feels that way, but that was part of the reason we decided not to re-sign him, because we knew we had used him 270-something times in the last three years.”
Makes Cashman look a little silly. I also love that the Mets basically admit the abuse.
Joe Powlikowski April 5, 2011 11:45
I got a solid 94k words on how Cashman is a God among men. Except for this. And for Jeter. And for romancing Pavano. I love him anyway.