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<blockquote data-quote="the juiceman cometh" data-source="post: 1816058" data-attributes="member: 747321"><p>That's true of last offseason, but we've had successes too. The aforementioned Luis Garcia. Pat Neshak. Randy Choate. Matt Belisle. Edward Mujica. Ryan Franklin. Jason Isringhausen.</p><p></p><p>It's absolutely true that relief pitcher success is difficult to predict. Relievers often go from dominant to liability in the span of a single season. Our current FO position on this seems to be that past success provides absolutely zero indication of future success, which is why they'd opt to sign VerHagen for less than Garcia and for far less than Tepera. I think that's defensible, but also tend to think prior success does mean <em>something</em>, even if not a whole lot. I'd have re-signed Garcia for the extra $750K AAV. This time around I'd love to see us go after Matt Moore, Adam Ottavino or Cory Knebel if the price is right. I think one those guys would complement our high velocity guys like Helsley, Cabrera and Hicks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the juiceman cometh, post: 1816058, member: 747321"] That's true of last offseason, but we've had successes too. The aforementioned Luis Garcia. Pat Neshak. Randy Choate. Matt Belisle. Edward Mujica. Ryan Franklin. Jason Isringhausen. It's absolutely true that relief pitcher success is difficult to predict. Relievers often go from dominant to liability in the span of a single season. Our current FO position on this seems to be that past success provides absolutely zero indication of future success, which is why they'd opt to sign VerHagen for less than Garcia and for far less than Tepera. I think that's defensible, but also tend to think prior success does mean [I]something[/I], even if not a whole lot. I'd have re-signed Garcia for the extra $750K AAV. This time around I'd love to see us go after Matt Moore, Adam Ottavino or Cory Knebel if the price is right. I think one those guys would complement our high velocity guys like Helsley, Cabrera and Hicks. [/QUOTE]
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