- The big news today revolved around the signing of ex-Mariner closer, David Aardsma. Though Aardsma won’t return to playing until midyear, the major league contract guarantees him a spot on the roster for a $500k base salary plus incentives, as well as a team option in 2013. He’ll be equivalent to a trade deadline addition, without having to trade a prospect.
- LoHud gathered a quote from Joe Girardi today, talking about how Phil Hughes looks in camp. He believes this year’s conditioning has allowed Hughes to throw the ball with more arm speed, with more ease, and with a crisper curveball.
- Larry Koestler at River Ave Blues described the changes that Brooks Baseball is making to their Pitchf/x data. While Brooks is always the most current source of data, it fails at classifying many pitches, and makes it very hard to trust research that I’ve done. As someone that’s attempted to look at Ivan Nova‘s slider data, this update will finally fix this misclassified pitch, and Koestler attacked this right away.
- While Derek Jeter is keeping secrets about Mariano Rivera‘s possible retirement, Bronx Baseball Daily picked up a quote from Mark Teixeira that may shed doubt on what appears to be Mo’s last year.
- On Monday, Michael P over at Yankees Fans Unite discussed Alex Rodriguez‘ tenure with the Yankees, and how his recent struggles have changed our perspective on where he should hit in the order.
- And of course, for inquiring minds, Chad Jennings has today’s practices in Tampa.
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I like the Aardsma signing. He won’t be a setup man or closer but it’s a cheap deal, for someone with good stuff, who can miss bats in middle relief. I like that they have a cheap option year too, he’ll likely be stronger next year with a full offseason healthy and spring training before the season starts.
So Aardsma can go on the 60 day DL for now, correct?