Fatty go bye-bye
Seriously though there must have been a disconnect between Bowden and Acta on this one. King can get out lefties - that’s it. Lefties are hitting .253 / .253 / .353 vs Ray King this year and other than a very odd 2005 that’s the best they’ve done since 1999. Acta though used Ray King all the time facing righties 16 times and lefties 17. It was a recpipe for disaster that turned out delicious!
You could say Acta didn’t have choice - early in the season he needed every inning his bullpen could give - but it was a bad decision. Just because you have a cake to cut and no knives around - only a chainsaw - you don’t go ahead and use the chainsaw. Even if it is the only way to say “HEY, JIMBO YOU MORON - I DON’T HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO CARRY A LOOGY WHEN YOU GIVE ME 3 PITCHERS AND A BULLPEN BUDDY TO WORK WITH EVERY NIGHT!!” and get Jimbo to react, I still think you don’t do it - hurts the team . Bowden I’m sure didn’t appreciate the misuse, killing King’s tradeability (oh you thought he was in Columbus for actual rehab?) but what are you going to do? Might as well see if you could get something for him now (spoiler: they couldn’t)
Someone will pick him up. Someone with a deep bullpen withouth a lefty specialist could use Ray King. That wasted 20 games of the Nats time though that probably could have been avoided.
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2 Responses to “Fatty go bye-bye”
April 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Of course now that it looks like Chief is headed back to the DL, our bullpen situation is even more strained. Although at least Manny can use whoever (Schroeder?) is brought up in any situation. So, will Ray King turn out to be the Claudio Vargas of 2008?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:44 am
or Darrell Rasner - that boy is tearing it up in AAA. 0.87 ERA in 5 starts. 6 walks and 27 Ks in 31 innings.
Ray King will pitch well somewhere else but he isn’t a bad loss for the Nats because they simply can’t use him like he needs to be used. He’s an effective LOOGY. The Nats need all hands to be able to not only pitch relief but probably be able to be 2-inning guys with the injuries we’ve seen and the cross-your-fingers ok so far starting pitching staff.
You just wish that either Acta used him as he should have been while Bowden looked for a deal or better yet, they didn’t bother to resign him and brought in a reliever useful to the Nats.
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