Email a copy of 'This Date In Transactions History: Randy Wells' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'This Date In Transactions History: Randy Wells' to a friend
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venn177
Articles like this are the best on MLBTR.
Encarnacion's Parrot
Agreed. Nothing like reading about how players have to take the hard road to the MLB, yet still persevere in obtaining their dream. I would have pereferred if my Jays kept him; Never understood why they let him go.
rzepczynski
in the blue jay defense carlson was great when he came up… swag
Encarnacion's Parrot
Swapping one unknown for another then. Could be because they needed a lefty at the time.
mattinglyfan
I love this story too, great work. I like to see guys like Randy Wells come out of nowhere to succeed.
JacksTigers
I think that Well’s is a good player and may even improve a little bit more. I wouldn’t be surprised if he put up a year that got him at least 1 Cy Young vote before it is all said and done.
By the way, this is my 1,000 comment on MLBTR, so, ummmmm…. what do I win? Money? A car? Money? Did I say Money? A car would be nice too.
Lunchbox45
boy, he would have looked a lot better in the rotation then tallet and litsch last year and jojo reyes and litsch this year. C’est la vie.
Milmurph
Wells never pitched in high school or college and made it to MLB as a pitcher, a starter at that? How rare is that?
jill
Thanks for this story. I’m guessing the Cubs thought he’d slip through without being claimed. The story also helps illustrate a point I often make right here on good old MLB Trade Rumors-despite all odds, pitchers often gut it out and make it any way, or make it back, sometimes long after everyone wrote them off. Colby Lewis, R A Dickey, Scott Atchison, are a few I can think of from last season. Give these guys a mound, and they aren’t going to willingly walk off it.
Anyway, good for Randy Wells for not giving up on himself. That’s got to be the hardest part of his whole ordeal.