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11 months ago: PITTSBURGH - JUNE 22: Chris Resop #30 of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitches against the Baltimore Orioles during the game on June 22, 2011 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
Praise Tebow, some actual news. Chris Resop and the Pirates have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year deal worth $850,000. That's not particularly significant news, true, but it does put into perspective how absurd it was that there was speculation the Pirates might not tender Resop. He's a frustrating pitcher, but if you can sign a 29-year-old reliever who strikes out way more than a batter an inning, and it costs you one year and $850,000, you get it done as fast as possible and give everyone around the office a high five. It's an easy call. Resop is a little too walk- and homer-happy, and he relies too much on his fastball, but he's still a pretty good bet to be useful, and he might still become something more than that.
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Glad to hear it
I’ve been one of the bigger Resop apologists on the board, and even though last year’s numbers don’t really bear this out, I still think he’s gonna have a great 2012.
Garrett122 - January 13, 2012
HIGH FIVE
for Neal.
King Oskar - January 13, 2012 via Android app
The Pirates can only afford a high four.
WTM - January 13, 2012
Cuz Nutting is cheap
maguro - January 13, 2012 via mobile
So cheap that his contracts only have spots for 6 digits.
pskell02 - January 13, 2012
Gotta be a trade soon
We are busting out the seams with bullpen arms:
McCutchen
Moskos
Watson
Meek
Hanrahan
Resop
Morris
Wilson
Lincoln
Leroux
Grilli
Correia
Hughes
bmcferren - January 13, 2012
well Hughes, Leroux, Morris, Wilson, Moskos and Watson can go to AAA I believe. As well as Lincoln if we dont have room. So we dont HAVE to make a trade
C Shint - January 13, 2012
surely lincoln is out of options by now, right? Either way he’s probably right that we deal one of them in late-March for an A ball catcher or something.
Mr. E - January 14, 2012
Not Leroux
Leroux is out of options. Lincoln and Morris each have one left.
WTM - January 14, 2012
Hanrahan is the only one of those guys with significant trade value right now. Teams looking for a decent-ish middle reliever or setup guy can just sign one.
Vlad - January 15, 2012 via mobile
i agree with ya
but we just traded Veras, so ya never know
white angus - January 15, 2012
I like Resop
Nice deal.
Kosstic518 - January 13, 2012 via mobile
yup.
BostonBuc - January 13, 2012
wonder how long it will be
until we start seeing people complain about how the Pirates didn’t offer Taillon and Cole to get Montero
PuncSpeedChunk - January 13, 2012
It won't happen.
After all…how many actual prospects has Neal Huntington traded in the last 4+ years?
That list would be EXTREMELY short.
Thunder - January 14, 2012
0 is a number, right?
white angus - January 14, 2012
That was the number I had in mind.
Thunder - January 14, 2012
its the one major thing about NHs job that i dont like
not willing to trade prospects, even though he said he is ready to do it…. but, that may change, who knows.
white angus - January 15, 2012
He traded Pounders like a month and a half ago. Pounders isn’t a great prospect, but he’s a prospect.
Vlad - January 15, 2012 via mobile
He also traded Aaron Baker — he probably counts as a not great prospect too.
There aren’t that many prospects I wish he’d traded; assuming that the Padres would’ve wanted high-end prospects, the only time I can think of when I would’ve wanted him to trade prospects for a guy was J.J. Hardy. I don’t want him doing Carlos Quentin-type deals.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 15, 2012
there's also Ronald Uviedo and Todd Redmond
…which means he’s traded more prospects than he should’ve.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 15, 2012
I found Pounders on one prospect list from last season, so I will give Neal credit for trading one.
Thunder - January 15, 2012
i cant do this
for a 2nd rounder, he wasnt much of a prospect
white angus - January 15, 2012
I'm not arguing the point...
just conceding to Vlad that in some eyes (not mine), the number of prospects that NH has traded is not zero.
Thunder - January 15, 2012
yeah, i just dont think guys like Pounders and Uviedo, etc, were prospects when traded
just because they havent played in the majors doesnt make them prospects. is aaron baker really a prospect? no. pounders should have been because of his drafting position, but he didnt live up to it. not yet, anyway.
trading a top prospect for an established player is something NH hasnt done, and i have doubts that he actually would do it
white angus - January 15, 2012
Sickels put Uviedo as the #10 prospect in the org the year of the trade
link; Pounders actually made 20 on that list.
But agreed, NH hasn’t traded a top prospect yet. I don’t think he should’ve.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 15, 2012
That's quite
the concession, Thunder, ol’ boy…
Must’ve nearly killed you.
cocktailsfor2 - January 15, 2012
The Yankees wouldn’t take anybody we have in exchange for Montero. The value of Pineda to them is that he’s already had impressive major league success. They’re not looking for a prospect who’ll be ready in a year or two, or three, and who may not succeed at all.
WTM - January 14, 2012
Yep..
I was actually surprised they were able to land Pineda. Montero’s all but done catching and it has seemed his trade value has decreased a bit (for whatever reason) just as Pineda has a semi-breakout season.
That Yanks rotation sure looks a lot better than it did 48 hours ago.
jlk9697 - January 14, 2012
Not so absurd.
I think it’s funny that Charlie mentions that speculation that Resop might not be tendered as absurd, but uses many more negatives “frustrating pitcher”, “walk- and homer- happy” and “relies too much on his fastball” to describe Resop than positives. Perhaps not tendering that kind of pitcher might not be so absurd after all.
I think for many, Resop is your average, sometimes decent, run-of-the-mill relief pitcher. For me personally, I thought the Pirates might not tender Resop because NH had re-built his bullpen each year and he could have signed any number of relievers that are pretty similar to Resop for around 750k-850k. It wasn’t about Resop not being worth that amount of money, but that Pirates could have found other similar relievers for roughly the same money, if they weren’t happy with him.
impliedi - January 14, 2012
I really thought Resop was a non-tender candidate, mainly because he seems to be just a one-pitch pitcher. In fact, if they hadn’t traded Veras, I’m not sure there’d have been room for him. (I’d have cut Grilli loose before Resop, but Hurdle obviously loves Grilli.) A lot would depend on whether your coaches thought they could upgrade his arsenal.
WTM - January 14, 2012
I like it.
He had 54 scoreless games out of 76. I’ll take that and a K per inning for 850,000.
Tintin049 - January 14, 2012
Off topic:
I was at the Marshall-UCF game last night and saw former Bucco pitcher Rick Reed at one of the bars around the corner beforehand.
We spend a lot of time talking about Taillon, Cole, Bell etc. for the Pirates’ future. This is all well and good, but we need a Rick Reed or two the next few years too.
Just my two yen worth….
patthatt - January 15, 2012
You just randomly recognized Rick Reed? That’s pretty cool.
Charlie Wilmoth - January 15, 2012
Similarly off-topic
I ran into Josh Fogg about 8 months ago in Tampa. The first thing I said was “I thought you were taller,” to which he responded “Everyone says that!!” Call me selfish, but if Pittsburgh’s going to lose, I’d rather they lose with likeable guys like Fogg. Giles, Kendall, Mike Williams… hard to be a big fan, especially when the team’s not doing so well.
SuperBaes - January 15, 2012
you make a great point
hard to like the unlikable guys, especially if they arent winning.
white angus - January 15, 2012
Some would argue that Giles and Kendall don’t fit into that likeable guys category.
Thunder - January 15, 2012
he said they arent likeable
white angus - January 15, 2012
My eyesight is getting bad...
thought I saw a comma after Fogg and not a period, which of course changes the meaning entirely. My bad.
Thunder - January 15, 2012
I read it the same way as you
twice.
Wizard of Woz - January 16, 2012
No but they both fit itno the
“I thought you were taller” category.
cocktailsfor2 - January 15, 2012
A local guy we were with said he was somewhere in the bar.
I figured it out from there. He doesn’t look much different, if you imagine him with a decent amount of hair.
I’d heard he was back in the area. He worked for a year as a Marshall pitching coach and I read an article last year that said he is busy with his two adopted kids.
patthatt - January 15, 2012
in that pic
Resop doesn’t even look like he’s trying!
BlindSquirrel - January 15, 2012
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