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Astros Designate Villarreal
The Astros designated reliever Oscar Villarreal for assignment today. The 26 year-old posted a 5.02 ERA in 37.2 innings this year. He's been leaning more heavily on his breaking stuff this year, and the result has been fewer strikeouts, more walks, and a ridiculous number of home runs allowed (12). Villarreal is signed through 2009. He'll either accept the assignment to Triple A or take a release/trade from the Astros.
Check out Richard Justice's blog for commentary on Ed Wade's acquisition and signing of Villarreal.
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Did he body slam Ed Wade?
Posted by: Stephen Peele | July 02, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Never ceases to amaze me how some GM's will bargain hunt for pitchers who've never really been good and think they've made good finds, only to realize they got exactly what they paid for. Nothing against Villarreal, he's been descent in the past and someone would/will give him a shot, but doesn't it seem like Wade has built his whole pitching staff on guys like Villarreal and Chacon? Maybe he was expecting too much out of Rodriguez, maybe he thought Oswalt would be better. Either way, he didn't get enough quality, only enough quantity. And what good did that do him besides the butt kicking?
Posted by: pageian | July 03, 2008 at 09:00 AM
I agree w/ Pageian with the exception that he was mostly working with what he could and for the most part did as good of job as I thought he would, not to say that the bar was too high. I think he went with quantity over quality 1st, because he had little money and poor farm system and 2nd cause he was hoping one or two of the buy low guys would bring high benefits. it's like the lottery really i guess for him........bet he is glued to the tube every night hoping to get that powerball...
Posted by: AstrosCoverage.blogspot.com | July 03, 2008 at 09:27 AM