richgedman'sghost said:
Funny Plympton 91 seems pretty quiet all of s sudden. Cat get your tongue?
Even if Miller misses a season from this point on recovering from TJS, at "waste" of $10 million, they'd still have been better off using that $10 million to enjoy 2 months of flawless relief pitching and then rehab Miller rather than signing Masterson.
I simply have a different view of risks and rewards than others here. All baseball players are a risk of injury or underperformance, they don't become more or less so after signing long-term contracts. And if paying Allen Craig $27 million over three seasons to play in Pawtucket isn't going to cripple the team, then neither would missing out on one year of a relief pitcher at roughly the same salary.
Though one of the reason I was so pro-Miller was because he had no history of arm injuries. And, because of his ineffectiveness as a starter and fluke foot injury in 2013, he had never been abused, which should have, by all the SABR reasoning, made him a lower risk than many others to have an arm injury. So there's that.
But hey, it's so awesome that the Red Sox bullpen has been flawless in 2015, and they obviously didn't need Miller anyway. They should obviously keep following the "Shit against the Wall" strategy that is working out so well for them. AMIRITE!