“Look At Me!! I’m A Baseball Executive!!”
The Devil Rays and Astros completed a trade in which Ty Wiggington went to the Astros for reliever Dan Wheeler. Here’s a quote:
"Upgrading our bullpen has been a priority for a long time,"
Tampa Bay executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew
Friedman said. "Wigginton has been a tremendous value to this
organization on the field and in the clubhouse and obviously, it’s
bittersweet to lose Wiggy. But we got a relief pitcher that we
feel can pitch important high leverage innings and the back part of
the game, where it’s especially important with our young starting
pitchers."
I like to think I’m a reasonably bright guy with pretty good baseball knowledge; but what the **** are "high leverage innings"? Sounds like something some financial guy and baseball neophyte who was hired to run a major league baseball team without any qualifications at all would say to make himself sound…oh, wait a second…
princeofny
I didn’t really grasp how you actually felt about this trade. But you have to commend them for trading away an expendable position player to upgrade their pitching…finally, right?
http://statisticianmagician.mlblogs.com/
I don’t know what the market for Wigginton was. He’s a hard-nosed player with some pop; Wheeler should have been more in demand since everyone needs bullpen help. I don’t know what the Devil Rays need Wheeler for unless they’re gonna spin him off somewhere, but looking at their front office, I don’t expect much. After all, he’s going to provide “high leverage innings”.