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11/28/2005: "Caldred, Blue Jays et al"
Not often you see a guy retire for financial reasons, but according to the Post-Dispatch Cal Eldred has decided to call it... er, another career. It's not a huge surprise; at this point his arm is about as stable as Yakov Smirnov's career, circa 1989, and throwing in a heart problem is just overkill.
It's understandably not huge news--the back of the bullpen is such that I half-expect an intrepid reporter to look back there one day and find Jesse Orosco's skeleton, left hand dangling from the Nautilus equipment--but you'd think it could at least crack the Cardinals front page ahead of SAVING TWENTY PERCENT ON ALL MERCHANDISE BEFORE 2 PM CENTRAL !! and the weeks-old Frick news.
I'll always remember him as the guy who kept the bullpen from exploding in 2003, along with Kiko Calero; he was one of the first NRIs that I followed from Spring Training on, and even after his ERA ballooned to 135.00(!) a few appearances into his comeback he kept it together. Over his Cardinals career he managed to throw his slider by enough hitters to put up a 3.31 ERA--wouldn't you know it, the same 3.31 ERA the Cubs just threw Scott Eyre $11 million at to duplicate. So, here's to you, Cal Eldred--I have no idea why you were effective, but you were, and that works for me.
As for the Blue Jays... well, they're spending money like they don't realize the players are looking for American dollars. B.J. Ryan as the richest reliever in history? Well... I guess that if you're going to throw FORTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS at a relief pitcher he's as good as any, but... forty-seven million dollars for a relief pitcher? That's not all--the Blue Jays are now committed to signing one of the Burnett/Giles set as well. Now, what they do in the Great White North doesn't have a lot of bearing on the Cardinals, because they still aren't going to make the World Series, but if they sign Giles and suddenly find themselves needing a young, hard-throwing right-handed pitcher? That's it, Vernon Wells, that's it--come to Papa Walt.
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on Monday, November 28th, CalvinPitt said
I gotta say, I'm gonna miss Cal. I liked the fact he filled whatever role Tony asked (mop-up, long relief if the bullpen was worn down, spot start).
As for the Blue Jays. The spending does seem ludicrous, but anything that keeps the Yanks and the Sawx from loading up any more is fine with me.
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