Chris Young
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Chris Capuano
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And Seligman, Young had arthroscopic shoulder surgery, not TJ. Capuano had TJ surgery (actually twice, he must be running out of spare tendons at this point).

If anything, Wang signing was exactly like signing Escobar last year.

The fact is Omar gave Seattle anything they wanted and the primary piece they wanted wasn’t even coming from us, it was coming from Cleveland. (Guttirez) We handed over two players and five prospects. Green was a downgrade from Smith and Reed was a CLEAR downgrade for Endy. Carp was depth at 1B which as it turns out we could have used, Cleto didn’t pan out but Vargas did at least for one year and I would have preferred not to trade the young pitcher and as it turns out we certainly could have used that young pitcher. He at the very least would have prevented us from losing Darren O’Day in order to start Figgy and if we had Smith, who had options we could have gone that route too.

If we didn’t have to pay Putz’s 5.5 Mil for 29 IP w/5.22 ERA and buyout maybe we wouldn’t have dumped Wagner and the two high draft choices we gave to Boston and maybe we would finally have drafted someone capable of filling RF or 2B for us for a change.

Vargas may never be Tommy John, or maybe he will. We won’t know for a while but he certainly turned out to be a better keep than another young LHP we gave 36 million to and there was no reason to include him along with everyone else we shipped out for a pitcher everyone knew was hurt and then not even bother to give him a physical and then ask him to pitch through it and not say anything to the media about the injury and to let him pitch in the WBC before the season even started.

Trading young pitchers for relief pitchers is not a wise move on it’s own. Trading 7 players including a young starter for an injured relief pitcher is the very definition of inept.

In our current condition that is the way to be thinking.

If the guy can give us 5 or 6 quality innings per start that should carry us early in the season, enough to get us to the trading deadline and possible return of Santana where option will open up to improve that pitching slot.

It costs us little so even if Young is a bust there is little downside to the signing.

And if it happens to be that he can not give us enough innings (and quality Innings) as a starter we always have the option of sending him to the pen where one or two innings is all you really need from him.

Realisticly, 86, he’s the John Maine replacement not the Cliff Lee alternative. In the rotation that’s underperformed these past 3 yrs as I see it stalwarts Maine & Perez are being replaced/upgraded by Young/Capuano, I certaINLY TRUST WE’LL BE THE BETTER FOR IT.