December 7, 201015 yr Lots of potential here, and could be a good sigining for the bullpen/long man. Good type for a Coop fix... thoughts?
December 7, 201015 yr I love moves like this. He and Maybin were the main pieces that allowed DET to get Cabrera and now they're both out of Florida. If I was a GM, I'd go to town on low risk, high reward guys.
December 7, 201015 yr Depends on what we want to do with our bullpen. If Thornton is going to be the closer, Sale, Miller, and Thornton from the LH side isn't the worst setup I've ever heard. Wonder if some team won't give him a chance to start though.
December 7, 201015 yr QUOTE (Fantl916 @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 06:29 PM) Lots of potential here, and could be a good sigining for the bullpen/long man. Good type for a Coop fix... thoughts? The question with these types of signings is can Don Cooper work miracles?
December 7, 201015 yr Hell no. Never liked this dude and he's still a project. Because of his potential he'll cost money, probably $1-2M to stink it up in a bad team's bullpen. There's too much lefty velocityness for a MiLB deal IMO. I'd only want him on a MiLB deal or as part of some deal where we can watch him in ST and then cut him/grant him FA without paying his contract by say March 15 or something. We should just look to find another Williams or Threets. May not be exciting but with Thornton as the lefty setup man and Sale closing, or vice versa, all we'd need is someone to get out lefties on occasion. I'd certainly want more Threets than Williams, but sometimes the Randy Williams types work out for a season or two. It happens.
December 7, 201015 yr This is one of those things where you defer to Cooper. If he sees something that is fixable, you give him a shot if it is cheap.
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