Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Prior and Mulder

Today the Cardinals declined their option on Mark Mulder's contract for next season thus making him a free agent. Mark Prior is also a free agent. Both of these players have had a lot of success when healthy, but their problem is staying healthy. Prior is only 28 and Mulder is only 31. I personally am a huge fan of signing talented guys coming off of surgery to minor league deals with incentives. I would sign both of these guys to contracts because neither would cost much and could probably sign both to minor league deals. I wouldn't rely on either but if even one of them could help out the team he would be a huge boost and cheap. Signing them, especially Prior, is one of the ultimate low risk/high reward type of move. Think about if Mark Prior could come back healthy pitching even in the realm of his prime, we would have a good rotation. If BOTH of them could come back and pitch like they have the ability to, we would have a great rotation. I am a big supporter of signing both of them to minor league deals. Please Omar listen to me for once and sign them.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Todd Jones is a similar type of player. Not as much risk though. Methinks a closer? Hm?

Anonymous said...

hell i would rather sign todd jones than these two

but not as a closer

start him why has no one thought of that before

Anonymous said...

hey, hey, hey....buddy..there's only one sarcastic guy on this blog..leave it to the pros my man..