On Wednesday the Phillies announced the signing of Pedro Martinez. He signed for 1 year at 1 million dollars and can earn up to 1.5 million in incentives. He last pitched for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic and apparently looked good enough in recent workouts to earn a contract. Pedro will start in the minors for probably 2-3 weeks and hopefully will be ready for the Phils vacant 5th starter role by that time. Personally I view this signing as low risk and decent reward. If it doesn't work out the Phils only had to pay him 1 million. Obviously we won't be seeing Pedro in his prime but he still has a good idea of how to pitch and much more experience than the Triple A call ups who were trying to fill the 5th starter role. I guess this means that the Lehigh Valley experiment will be over, but was fun while it lasted. As long as he can keep the Phils in ball games for 5 or 6 innings its worth it. In the end there was currently nobody filling the 5th starters role on this ball club, so its an upgrade in my mind. With the risk being so minimal in this situation its hard to complain with this signing. Now Amaro can get back to bidding with the Blue Jays over the prospects it will take to pry Halladay out of Toronto.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Phillies Sign Pedro Martinez
On Wednesday the Phillies announced the signing of Pedro Martinez. He signed for 1 year at 1 million dollars and can earn up to 1.5 million in incentives. He last pitched for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic and apparently looked good enough in recent workouts to earn a contract. Pedro will start in the minors for probably 2-3 weeks and hopefully will be ready for the Phils vacant 5th starter role by that time. Personally I view this signing as low risk and decent reward. If it doesn't work out the Phils only had to pay him 1 million. Obviously we won't be seeing Pedro in his prime but he still has a good idea of how to pitch and much more experience than the Triple A call ups who were trying to fill the 5th starter role. I guess this means that the Lehigh Valley experiment will be over, but was fun while it lasted. As long as he can keep the Phils in ball games for 5 or 6 innings its worth it. In the end there was currently nobody filling the 5th starters role on this ball club, so its an upgrade in my mind. With the risk being so minimal in this situation its hard to complain with this signing. Now Amaro can get back to bidding with the Blue Jays over the prospects it will take to pry Halladay out of Toronto.
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The thought of Halladay in a Phils uniform makes me shudder. I don't like the idea of facing Halladay and Hamels in Game 1 and 2 of the NLCS
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