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Agree completely. Leake to long relief or maybe even AAA for a while to start the season. I'd bet he makes 15 starts in 2013.
I'd stick Cingrani in the pen as the other lefty. Ondrusek and Arredondo would be the trade pieces with a kid or two IMO.
Broxton (CL)
Marshall (LHSU)
Hoover (RHSU)
Lecure (RMR)
Cingrani (LMR)
Masset/Simon (Mop-up)
Leake (Swingman)
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Barry On Baseball Also blogging at Banished to the Pen.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Reds have too many holes to hold Leake as a sixth starter. They probably can't afford more free agents of starting player quality. They will need to trade from their pitching depth.
They aren't getting a regular LF or CF for Didi Gregorius and Ryan Lamarre.
You go with five starters. You do your best to come up with depth guys in case of injury.
I'd be amazed if Leake was in the bullpen waiting for an opening. I've been amazed before, so it's possible. I expect a trade from the pitching depth.
Last edited by Kc61; 11-28-2012 at 09:51 PM.
I would never pay a nonathlete that kind of money. In the lousy shape he is in he could get hit any second with back, shoulder, knee problems. He also strikes me as a feast or famine guy.
"Don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself."--Winston Churchill
He's pretty quick for a big guy. I would say he's athletic
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
This seems like a significant misappropriation of funds considering the overall salary constraints likely facing the Reds and their other, more pressing, needs.
Yeah, Babe Ruth was overpaid
I'm reminded of a John Kruk story:
He was eating ribs at a nice restaurant, very sloppily and aggressively, when a woman came up to him aghast. She told him he should be ashamed of himself, considering he was an athlete. To which he replied, "Lady, I ain't an athelte, I'm a baseball player."
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