Email a copy of 'Rafael Betancourt Retires' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Rafael Betancourt Retires' to a friend
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triberulz
Wishing Rafael Betancourt a happy retirement. Consistent reliever for the Indians during the Wedge era. Career year in 2007 was a big part of the Indians playoff run that season.
A'sfaninUK
He had a 3.34 FIP and a 6.18 ERA. His career FIP was 3.05 so it looks like the Rockies bad defenders behind him last season are what ended his career, that’s a shame.
Ray Ray
The gappers off the wall that were hit frequently last year would disagree with your assessment. Low FIP does not necessarily equal bad defense, which the Rockies do not have anyway. They have a very good/great team defense, but sometimes they just hit them where they fall in, which they did a lot in 2015. Raffy did not pitch well last year at all, but he pitched beyond great before his TJ surgery. He is the living proof that you have to bean extreme ground ball pitcher to be successful at Coors Field.
Ray Ray
* do NOT have to be an extreme GB pitcher
start_wearing_purple
Anyone else remember he was initially signed to be a shortstop.
yukongold
The 2 Rafaels made quite the duo out of the pen.
ernestofigueroa87
Cordero?
wants to be a GM
No, Perez.
jpleeg2
The human rain delay
jeffy25
Saw the rule about pitch clocks and decided he couldn’t deal with that….
Haha, good luck in retirement
Ray Ray
I loved Raffy as a Rockie, but does anyone else remember that he was one of the very first PED suspensions? Even before Raffy Palmeiro, Betancourt was hit while in the minors back when the penalty was only 10 days. He vigorously denied taking anything and never had any other problems in his career, so maybe he actually was falsely implicated. I don’t really care either way to be honest because I think the PED thing is overblown anyway, but I thought it was a fun fact.
jd396
About the time Juan Rincon got suspended IIRC.