Scraps: Morrow, First Cuts, Cordero

by ~ March 12th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

  • Brandon Morrow is still having some trouble with his forearm.  They’re saying that it isn’t anything serious and that they’re going to let him rest up.  If this takes longer than expected to resolve itself there is a very strong chance Morrow starts the year on the DL or West Tennessee.
  • RHP Josh Fields, RHP Tracey Thorpe, C Israel Nunez, UT Callix Crabbe and MIF Oswaldo Navarro were the first cuts.  None of them had any chance of making the club, so this isn’t surprising.  Fields seemed a little too amped up being around big leaguers, so it’s probably a good idea that they get him away and settled down as he comes back from his long layoff.
  • Seattle has signed free agent reliever Chad Cordero to a minor league deal.  I brought him up a few times over the offseason as a good no-risk acquisition, so I’m pretty happy with the move.  Hopefully he can continue to recover from the torn labrum and help Seattle a couple months down the road. 
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  • Mr.Benton

    I thought to myself why not bring Cordero in? I guess Z was thinking the same thing.

  • Slurve

    This bullpen has a crazy upside with Lowe, Walker, Aardy, Cordero being potential breakout candidates and with Fields coming up who says we have bullpen trouble?

  • Slugoben

    agreed slurve

  • ernier

    Another nice move by Jack Z with low risk and possible high reward. A minor league deal, so no spot on the 40 man roster and no real down side if Cordero doesn’t fully recover from surgery.

  • SABR Matt

    When last we saw Chad Cordero, he was throwing at an eye-popping, awe-inspiring 79 mph on his fastball.

    Let’s wait to see that velocity get back over 80 before we lay claim to his having breakout potential.

  • Bilbo

    um Matt, that is what potential means! :-) Seriously though, it is a low risk-high reward move and should be applauded as such whether it works out or not.

  • Project Monkey

    It will be awesome if he fully recovers and comes back into old form.

  • SABR Matt

    I wasn’t calling people out for applauding another spaghetti move with potential. I love that Z is making these kinds of grabs. I was calling out the comment about the Mariners’ bullpen not having problems. What we have right now is a high risk, low stoploss, high upside bullpen. Which means it could very well be among the best…or among the worst bullpens in baseball. It’s way too early to start talking about this bullpen like it doesn’t have problems.

    There is not one soul in the entire bullpen who has good control, for example. Walker (aptly named), Aardsma, Rowland-Smith, Corcoran, Lowe…they all can’t hit the broad side of a barn from 20 paces…let alone 60.5. THey all have great stuff too. And a lot of potential to boot. But this could just as easily be the 1998 bullpen as the 2007 bullpen.

  • SABR Matt

    Amusingly enough, the Mariners made my case better than I ever could with their 10 walk outburst. A modest prediction…the Mariners bullpen will be among the league leaders this year in both walks and Ks.

  • mikey

    Jon,

    Is the roto league draft still set for tomorrow?

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Dustin Shires

    The roto draft is still 13 days away…

  • Slurve

    The H2H league draft is next week at 10AM.

  • mikey

    Thanks Dustin.

  • http://bleedingblueandteal.com Jon Shields

    The draft times:

    H2H – Saturday, March 15th at 10:15 AM PDT (Next weekend)
    Roto – Saturday, March 28th at 10:30 AM PDT

    I’ll have a blog post up later in the week as a reminder/role call for the H2H draft, and will do the same for the Roto a little later.