HoRam to DL, Huber up
DMZ · May 25, 2007 at 3:07 pm · Filed Under Mariners
PI’s reporting that Horacio Ramirez is on the DL, while Jon Huber’s been recalled from AAA. Hickey speculates that Weaver’s the obvious move to come off the DL and take Ramirez’s next start.
HoRam’s made-up suspect totally legitimate injury is “left shoulder tendinitis” I understand. Weaver is on the DL with right shoulder tendinitis. Both of them suck.
Jon Huber’s thrown 24 2/3rds innings in Tacoma, allowing 26 H, 2 HR, 5 BB, and 19 K.
What does Justin Lehr have to do to get a look?
Granted, he’s not going to light the world on fire, but he’s pitched well enough to get a shot over Weaver.
odd injury for a right handed pitcher. Still, it gets him out of the lineup.
And gets us Jon Huber! Goodbye frying pan, hello fire.
Oil Can Boyd is attempting a comeback. I kid you not. I would plug Oil Can into the rotation over HoRam just for the comedic value. Maybe we can convince Mark Fidrych to leave the comforts of retirement, as well.
Ho Ram is left-handed.
Ho is a lefty.
Huber had a bad April but rebounded nicely in May.
That said, he’s headed back to Tacoma once they figure out who’s taking HoRam’s place.
I read in the Times a couple days back about Oil Can and Marquis Grissom running that barnstorming baseball tour to try and reach the black community.
I hear they’ve contacted our favorite bigoted dinosaur-defying reject-DH about joining them.
Sure are glad we traded Soriano for this guy. BTW, Soriano is owning.
Cynic.
ESPN should have a “reality” show: “Replacement Level Idol” ….
#1: Lehr isn’t on the 40-man.
Soriano’s WPA is +1.89.
We couldn’t have used that, though.
#7: And for that you can thank Mr. Bavasi. . .
Mr. E a cynic? Nahh
And why just look at one year — give Bavasi some credit — sample size and all….
Just because Raffy has career ERA+ over 150, career more than 1 K per inning, career nearly 4-to-1 K-to-BB ratio
and HoRam career is ERA+=100 — .5 K/inning — roughly 1-to-1 K/BB
what’s to be cynical about?
Here’s a good article about Oil Can Boyd’s traveling barnstormers team:
http://www.nashuapride.com/news/fullstory.php?id=855
I am friends with Huber’s family, (his brothers daughter).. tickets for me!
#5 makes sense. nThey get a chance to bolster the pen for a few days before they have to pick a replacement starter.
Anyone but Weaver. Please.
I hate to be a voice of irrational optimism, but if Weaver IS hurt and strengthening exercises do add 3-4 MPH to his fastball, he could be the passable innings-muncher we thought we signed.
I mean, it’s not likely, but his velocity loss is at least as responsible for his failures as his location and pitch selection.
Time to try and make the sort of trade Dave was talking about awhile back. OF prospect for decent back of the rotation starter.
Isn’t Jon Huber the guy who played Napolean Dynamite?
#18: Good idea. Adam Jones for Aaron Sele.
The window has shut on Wladimir Baletien for Scott Baker, tragically.
But Sidney Ponson is available! Oh, and Mark Redman.
“Napoleon”
Speaking of Barnstorming….
Best Baseball Move Ever: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.
Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, etc…
“Balentien”
Napoleon Balentien?
“Movie”
“Tom”
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I’m sort of surprised at the level of snark about Ho’s injury. Seems to me that a guy getting lifted after two innings due to injury points to the possibility that he’s genuinely hurt.
What happens to Sean White if the M’s decide to end the experiment? I realise that the Brave’s may want to buy him back, but what if they choose not to? Does he have to pass through waivers? It would free up a spot.
Given the M’s long and storied history of DL hijinks, I’m sort of surprised that you’re sort of surprised.
“realize”
I believe Sean White is the Rule 5 guy. If so, he must stay on the 25-man roster for the entire season or be offered back to the Braves for half of the $50,000 we paid for him.
The M’s should call up Tim Lincecum, he’s doing fantastic!
I can’t remember a team ever refusing to buy back a rejected Rule 5 player but I’m sure it has happened.
Enough with the “____” spelling corrections. Tiresome.
HoRam is a leftie… and I am kinda dumb.
My only excuse is that I try to turn my head away when he pitches.
Mike MacDougal likes to turn his head away when he pitches too. And sometimes, I can’t blame him.
“realise” is a legitimate (mostly British) variant of “realize”.
Weaver again? I’d rather pull a spot starter out of the bullpen. Jason Davis came up as a starter with the Indians, and just threw 61 pitches in 3-2/3 yesterday. Consider that a start, rest him until the next time Ramirez’s spot comes up, and hope he can stretch it out just a little bit more. It’s still longer than Weaver would be likely to last.
#40: Julio Mateo has spot-started before.
If chosen in the Rule 5 draft, a player must be kept on the selecting team’s 25-man major league roster for the entire season after the draft–he may not be optioned or designated to the minors. The selecting team may, at any time, waive the Rule 5 draftee. If a Rule 5 draftee clears waivers by not signing with a new MLB team, he must be offered back to the original team, effectively canceling the Rule 5 draft choice. Once a Rule 5 draftee spends an entire season on his new team’s 25-man roster, his status reverts to normal and he may be optioned or designated for assignment.
You’re right, I should have remembered that, especially in this news cycle.
I’d rather bring my 18 mph stuff (per the radar gun at Mariner FanFest a couple years ago) to the mound rather than watch Weaver again.
HoRam 2007 = Greg Hibbard 1994?
#31 – For those of us that don’t remember all the details of the Mariners DL hijinks could you elaborate in order to spark my memory?
Spiezio spent a lot of time on the DL with a “rib” injury when he was hitting about .100, didn’t he?
might be worth checking in on the rainiers tonight and see if juston lehr makes his scheduled start.
Lehr is not on the 40-man … he’s not coming up.
49.
you think it’s possible that mateo or weaver gets dropped, or someone heads to the 60 day dl. i do.
Thomsen, you kinda beat me to it. Does it worry anyone at all that 2/3 of our offseason pitching acquisitions now are on the DL? Granted, they can do less damage to the team there but maybe it shows we’ve learned nothing about evaluating players?
Shoulda put this question on this thread to begin with… oh well.
How often do other ball clubs make up DL excuses to give their players some “straighten up†time?
“#40: Julio Mateo has spot-sucked before.”
Fixed
Didn’t they say during tonight’s game that Grover said that Weaver will not be making his next start? Prolly gonna have a AAA debut, eh?
any chance the brewers trade dave bush?
Hey, Nolan Ryan has said he’s available, though it might take a “Clemens-type” contract to get him. Still, odds are that’s a better performance/$ than the M’s have gotten out of Weaver. Plus he’d be better in a fight (where have you gone, Robin Ventura, forever known as Nolan Ryan’s bitch?) (Does anyone else find this piece of signed memorabilia hilarious on several levels?)
I believe Robin, when not spending time with his lovely wife and children, does charity stuff.
ah, I see he did the ‘former player/guest coach’ thing with the ChiSox
You might think Ho sucks but what does that say about the rest of the staff that he leads the team in wins?