Petit, Slaten Claimed Off Waivers

Great move by Jack. I can see it now: King Felix-Petit - a force to be reckoned with. With the improvements Petit made this year, Petit could be on the verge of breaking out.

Petit is a solid addition to the rotation. Assuming he wins a spot in spring training, he'll be a major upgrade over someone like Jason Vargas.

*Applauds Jack's waiver acquisition*

wow posts during the World Series thats dedication

Good luck to the M's. Petit sucks. BAD. It was painful to watch last year. He'll do better in a more pitcher-friendly park though.

Petit doesn't suck; he's shown flashes of his potential. He just needs consistency and then he'll put it altogether. Petit got more IP and his strikeout rate went up - this is a good sign. A pitcher can go from having the worst year of their career to having the best years of their career - just ask '07's Ervin Santana.

I am sure that Petit is excited about working with Felix. Felix can teach him a few things in spanish. Won't need to miss Montero's translation services.

YPetit-
You either didn't watch Petit, or you are actually Yusmeiro Petit himself, and are trying to make yourself look good. He had like two good starts and 15 awful ones. And even the bad pitchers have a good outing or two a year. Good luck to Petit, I really hope he figures it out in Seattle. And if there's any place that will help Petit figure it out, it's Seattle. That guy just wouldn't have any success in Arizona.

Hey Tomahawk, how does that have anything to do with this post? Hahaha

He didn't have two good starts; the only reason they kept him in the rotation was because he had a string of quality starts. He was dominant in those quality starts and usually, he faired better on the road.

Just because my display name is ypetit doesn't mean I'm Yusmeiro himself. Yusmeiro doesn't speak english fluently to begin with.

Petit can go from having the worst year of his career to best. It's very possible and it's happened before (see above - '07 Santana reference)

Don't lie ypetit, I KNOW you're him! lol

Uh, I wasn't being serious. I know you aren't Yusmeiro Petit. I didn't think that would have to be explained.

Petit is in no way, shape, or form like Santana. Petit doesn't have any "stuff" like Santana. He has an 86-88MPH fastball with not much movement and not much of any outstanding secondary pitches. He posted a 5.34 FIP this year, and he has a career 5.44 FIP. It's not like he's anything special.

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"27 Championships! The Red Sox suck woooohooooooo!"

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"Similarities? Petit and Santana have outstanding control. Petit has the potential to put better numbers in the control category if next year is his year."

Outstanding control? Is that why Petit continually lived up in the zone so the hitters can tee off on him? Or was that all planned? And what are you talking about "...if next year is his year"? Hell, Billy Buckner could have an ERA of 0.50, strike out 300 batters, and win the Cy Young next year "if next year is his year." But will it happen? Not likely.

"Petit tweaked all his pitches and added velocity to his fastball. There isn't a statistical indicator on how fast his fastball was this year -- 86-88 MPH is merely your own estimate. There were times in the season when he pitched upto 91MPH - 93 MPH (low 90's) and his pitches moved wherever he wants them to be because of his pinpoint control, which is only expected to improve in time."

Yeah, there actually is a statistical indicator on the velocity. It's called Pitch F/X. His average fastball velocity was 87.3 MPH. Petit's highest career velocity was 93 MPH. He hit that once. Once, in his whole career, and that was in 2007. Two years ago.

Face it, Petit just isn't that good.

Jdub: Don't rule out what Petit did last year. He showed that he had outstanding control; he walked just 22 batters in 122 innings (Tucson-MLB combined stats).

By no means am I saying that the trade to the mariners is his ticket to stardom. That remains to be seen. I am just telling you that even though it doesn't look like it's there (numbers certainly show it), he is improving - his strikeouts went up this year. Scouts didn't see that coming - they were expecting a decline in strikeouts.

Petit is a project, just like Snell. If the Mariners pitching staff can help Petit sort out the command issues this year (his BB went up) and help him in consistently pitching in the strike zone with moving heat + with changing speeds, he can be very effective.

He has the work ethic and motivation to win. I am sure he has what it takes to make the tangible improvements to his performance on the mound. It's just a matter of finding it in his pitches and the change of scenery could help him -- it's a new start.

YPetit, you're going nowhere with this.

Santana was an awful comparison. He has ten times the stuff Petit has. Also, Petit doesn't have "pinpoint control," contrary to what you said with absolutely no basis. This is proven by the fact that Petit leaves the ball up. A LOT. And hitters crush him. He also averages 3.41 BB/9. That's only .05 above league average. Not exactly pinpoint.

He sucks, but he's free, so whatever. M's will make a few of these types of moves this offseason, it snagged them Aardsma, Jakubauskas, Vargas, Olsen, et al. Another living, breathing arm that cost next to nothing to acquire.

As an M's fan, I do not expect Petit to put us "over the top". As others have said, he is an ok arm, that is 25, has some potential still, and with his high flyball rates could be well served by Safeco fields big dimesnions, and an outstanding OF defense. Worst case M's just spent 25K to take a flyer on someone who has some fringe ability...I see no risk here, not much upside either for that matter though.

Petit was awful. I don't care what random stats you pull out to explain away his terrible year. Every time he started a game, I assumed a loss. And guess what? That was the correct assumption most of the time.

It's terrible logic to say just because some other pitcher went from having the worst year of his career to the best year of his career, so this guy will too.

Also, just because he plays with Felix doesn't mean he'll all of the sudden become good too because he has a good pitcher to teach him. Petit was in the same locker room as Webb and Haren, two of the best pitchers in baseball. And language isn't a usable excuse.

I personally don't like the trend of both K's and BB's going up. That means a player is getting desperate and throwing harder, so he gets a few more guys to wiff but has a lot less control.

I'm glad Petit is gone from the Dbacks, so hopefully, they get a guy who can do something useful in the 5 spot of the rotation.