(thank you Repoz, for the clever title. I guess it really WAS bettern I HATE ED WADE AND HIS STUPID FETISH WITH OVERPAYING CRUDDY MIDDLE RELIEVERS AND WASHED UP EX-PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!)
I guess it must have been somewhere around 2 when I got the call from my mama about the news that Fast Eddie had flushed yet another 4.5 mill down the sewer on another washed up Veteran Presence. Mama actually didn’t quiiiiite say that, but this IS a G-rated blog.
Yep, Fast Eddie done gone and throwed away 4.5 mill on a Phillies reject. Yes, another one. We are talking about a guy whose option they didn’t pick up, a guy who they didn’t even want to TALK to, who they replaced with a guy who is a second baseman and hasn’t played third base in THREE years, AND whose bat has been declining over that period as well.
Jeezus Gawd. The very definition of throwing good money after bad. Even though Feliz was on the pennant winning team for 2 years in a row and is therefore a Winner(Tm) who will surely bring a Winning Attitude to the team.
BAH
Needless to say, this put me in a Very Bad Mood, so I texted Husband and told him that if he wanted to eat any dinner and if he didn’t want hungry, screaming kids, he best pick up some chickens at the Kroger on the way home. So he walks in the door at 6:15 and there is no Dog Pappas to greet him at the door, because Dog is smart enough to stay under the table and Out Of My Way and the house is suspisciously quiet, no TV and no music because the kids know bettern to bug me when I am in a Very Bad Mood. He says, uh, is there anything to go with this here chicken?
Aw Baby, it’s just a baseball team and I
um
uh, guess I’ll just go in the fridge, see what I can find here. You, uh, you, uh, um, headed off to your Mama’s?
Very funny there boy. You betcha my Daddy’s saying to her – now why don’t you and Susanna (her bff) and Lisa go shopping, hunh? Yeh, we SHOULD be the ones going shopping for the team because I promise you we could come up with a heck of a lot better plan than Brandon Suckage Lyon and Pay-dud Feliz for 9.5 freaking million dollars, that is fer SHER.
Pedro Feliz will be 35 in April. He came up with the Giants in 2001 and signed a FA contract with the Phils, and has played with them for the past 2 years.
His career line is .254/.298/.422/.715 and last year, he hit .266/.308/.386/.694. He used to have a little bit of power, but his ISO (isolated slugging percentage) over the past 5 years has gone – .209/.184/.165/.153/.121. while his OPS+ have stayed a nice steady 85/79/80/80/81/81 (Geoff Blum territory, just to translate.)
This means that besides not walking and hitting into a nice 12-20 double plays a year, he isn’t worth much. There was absolutely NO reason to have him on the team at all, as he doesn’t even have a platoon split which could be used to advantage.
What makes me laugh is that Fast Eddie told Richard Justice that Chris Johnson is still going to be competing for the third base job in Spring Training.
Right.
Just like I’m competing against various strippers/playmates for Grady Sizemore’s LUUUUVVV. There is a chance. Yeah, suuuuuuuuurrrre.
When it comes to the Astros, salary talks. In Spring Training, Johnson could hit .400, slug .800 and field like Brooks Robinson and we ALL know that Fast Eddie ain’t puttin no 4.5 mill on the bench, even if he goes ofer ST.
The problem with Wade spending 5 mill on a crummy middle reliever PLUS 4.5 million on an old, lousy third baseman is that he used money that he could have used to actually purchase GOOD offense, or even a GOOD starting pitcher ( because I am not going to use the words “good starting pitcher” about Paulino, Wilton Lopez, Wesley Wright or Brian Moehler.)
The Astros have finally descended to Royals/Pirates/Orioles level laughingstock. Check out THIS bit of juiciness from David Cameron.
If Drayton thinks that adopting the Pirates tack used from 93 – 08 of getting a few name brand used up major-leaguers for each year’s roster – if he really thinks that will sell more tickets than getting one decent ballplayer, he’s got more than a few screws loose. Houston is the 4th largest city in America and has (depending on whose valuation you believe) the 7th largest media market and he is essentially wasting a 100 million dollar payroll on dreck.
The terrible truth is that the Astros are gonna continue to circle the drain until Drayton gets tired of being laughed at by the national media (and hearing from locals and disgusted season ticket holders who are refusing to re-up, how his baseball team has gone back to its previous level of being ignored by Houstonians – meaning, pre-Roger Clemens) and decides to get rid of Tal, Eddie and the rest of the incompetent yes-men and go hire an actual baseball man with some smarts AND LET HIM DO HIS JOB!!!!!. He had a chance to get Rizzo and Dan Evans, but noooooooooooooooo…
Tags: Houston Astros, MLB
