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Marlins, Pavano Have Mutual Interest
According to Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post, Carl Pavano is open to returning to the Marlins. Capozzi says the Marlins are one of at least five teams interested in the 32 year-old righthander (the Rockies are believed to be another).
Pavano hopes to turn his career around with a healthy 2009. He's worth a look if he'll sign for $2-3MM plus incentives.
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Hopefully he'll go to an AL team so the fans at Yankee Stadium can greet him with an AROD-4 strikeout-playoff-game-like amount of boos.
Posted by: letsgoyankees | November 12, 2008 at 05:35 PM
Good Riddance!
Posted by: yankeegirl49 | November 12, 2008 at 05:49 PM
Is his buttock better? Seriously though, who wants to bet he ends up on the Cards/Marlins/Padres and pitches well next year?
Posted by: nrmax88 | November 12, 2008 at 06:03 PM
Pavano could be insurance for the Marlins rotation. They have five promising young starters, but two, Sanchez and Miller, are questionable based on last year's performance. Pavano was really the ace of the Marlin's staff when he left for New York.
Posted by: MrLongfellow | November 12, 2008 at 06:47 PM
Gotta love a guy that has thrown 45 Innings total (with an ERA over 5) the last 3 years could get $2-3 mil.
Posted by: XD23 | November 12, 2008 at 06:59 PM
Pirates should look into him. They need someone to pitch some quality innings so they don't overwork their young pitchers again. Maybe they can even flip him at the deadline if he shows signs of life.
I agree the Marlins or Padres would probably be good fits as well.
Posted by: bigpat | November 12, 2008 at 07:01 PM
Barring the unforeseen, Pavano is going to do really well for some team.
If they actually get the chance, I hope the fans at Yankee Stadium realize how much work it took to get back in to baseball shape in 2008.
He's got a crazy past and the Yankees could have used a #3 starter over the past few years but, he ended on the right note. Booing him (and booing ARod, for that matter) just showcases why free agents should think twice about playing in the Big Apple.
Posted by: rossdfarian | November 12, 2008 at 07:33 PM
A-Rod has never struck out 4 times in a playoff game.
Posted by: Not Joe Morgan | November 12, 2008 at 07:37 PM
"Booing him (and booing ARod, for that matter) ..."
Booing is lame.
Posted by: Not Joe Morgan | November 12, 2008 at 07:44 PM
Well, New Yorkers love to boo their players that aren't doing well. What does that make them?
Posted by: Ink&Paper | November 12, 2008 at 08:50 PM
There's no doubt that a return to the NL will make Pavano a 16 game winner, ala Pineiro.
He'll get healthy and have two solid years before being overpaid again as a free agent.
Posted by: jnr98 | November 12, 2008 at 08:53 PM
rossdfarian, completely agreed, NY baseball fans are supposed to be "the smartest in the world", but really they are just stupid spoiled brats.
They constantly boo their own guys, but I think a problem is booing becomes the thing to do sometimes, see A-Rod, 2006, and the people actually booing are just some stupid tools who decided to go see a baseball game but have no idea about the way the sport works. It drives me insane the way fans in NY treat their players. But then come the winter, they just expect that all the best players are going to want to play here, since everybody wants to play in NY.
Posted by: nrmax88 | November 13, 2008 at 01:02 AM
It should be noted that while NY has a ton of crappy fans who love to boo because of what they read in the Daily News or whatever, there are really two distinct subsections of fans. The good ones that are the reason we draw 50K for a Wednesday night Seattle game and the ones who have the connections to get and only show up for the Boston games. There's a reason Rodriguez is ridden so much harder versus the Sox; its different fans riding him. Obviously not two distinct circles, but they aren't as overlapped as some believe.
Posted by: Not Joe Morgan | November 13, 2008 at 10:23 AM