Bobby Jenks
Posted by Steve L. on December 15th, 2010 · Comments (9)
Reportedly, the Yankees have an interest in signing Jenks. His stats, via the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia:
YEAR AGE W L G SV GF IP H BB SO ERA RSAA 2005 24 1 1 32 6 18 39.1 34 15 50 2.75 8 2006 25 3 4 67 41 58 69.2 66 31 80 4.00 5 2007 26 3 5 66 40 61 65 45 13 56 2.77 14 2008 27 3 1 57 30 52 61.2 51 17 38 2.63 13 2009 28 3 4 52 29 46 53.1 52 16 49 3.71 5 2010 29 1 3 55 27 46 52.2 54 18 61 4.44 0
Yeah, he’s basically a league average pitcher these days – and he’s fat. Remember when the Yankees brought in Juan Acevedo? (Another Cashman move.) I could see this move going down as well as that one did…
25 innings on a pennant winning ballclub? Sign me up!
@ Steve Lombardi:
Looking a little deeper, I see a pitcher whose 2010 BABIP soared to .368 (career .306) and whose peripherals — BB/9, K/9, LOB% — indicate a decent bet for regression to previous success.
At 1Y/$5M or 2Y/$10M, it’s a perfectly acceptable risk to replace Kerry Wood with Bobby Jenks for the 8th inning power righty role.
he wants closer money. yankees ae lookin to give him closer money
BOHAN wrote:
If that’s the case then I stay away. No middle reliever should ever be paid more than $6M in a single season in this market (and that’s being overly generous as far as I’m concerned).
Red Sox agree with RP Bobby Jenks on 2-year, $12 million deal.
Wow.
@ Steve Lombardi:
That’s a shade more than I would’ve paid but a good move by them. They not only get a guy that should improve in 2011 but a safety net for their once-dominant closer that really struggled in 2010.
Good move by them.
MJ Recanati wrote:
I would think they’d give Bard first crack if Papelbon falls apart.
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I think it’s ironically humorous that Steve’s customary anti-Cashman meme fell to pieces “before the ink dried” on the original post of this thread.
So, Steve, is Theo signing an average pitcher, another Acevedo, for a ridiculous amount of money, or was Cashman correct to look into him…no, wait, I got it! Jenks is a GREAT pickup for the Sox, but Cashman was too slow and the Theo ate his lunch again.
Darn that Cashman!!
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I didn’t know the Red Sox signed King Tut from the old Batman TV series.
77yankees wrote:
Dead. Solid. Perfect.
LOL.