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The Brewers are close to signing RHP David Riske to a multi-year deal, according to ESPN.com, ‘citing a club source.’
Riske, 31, had a 2.45 ERA in 65 games for the Royals last season.
…i wouldn’t have minded if the Mets took a risk on riske…
…added to by Matthew Cerrone…
…the Brewers are clearly freaking out after losing Francisco Cordero and Scott Linebrink in the span of the week, and i’m guessing they do not view the landmark acquisition of Guillermo Mota as any sort of solution…imagine that…
…nevertheless, if linebrink reeled in a four-year deal, and riske rejected a two-year deal from the Royals, it stands to reason that the Brewers must be offering a three-year deal, or four, for riske, which is a lot…
The 31–year-old Riske has made 393 relief appearances during his eight-year career, during which he has a 3.40 ERA while opponents have hit .231 against him. His ERA was below 3.00 last season for the first time since 2003.
…i know there had been people who screamed for the Mets to sign him…the thing is, as i have said before, i can’t shake this bad feeling about chasing relievers around the league, hoping they duplicate the previous season’s success, all while locking them in to long-term deals, which the Mets said they were against last off-season, as a justification for not re-signing Chad Bradford, though they did sign mota and Scott Schoeneweis to long-term deals…i just don’t trust any one reliever any more, and certainly not enough for more than one season…
We’re too busy not getting Johan to address any other team need right now :-)
Ha – it’s true. Omar doesn’t seem to multi-task well. I hear Dan Duquette is a free agent. Let’s get him to sign us some players while Omar begs the Twins to pay attention to him.
We should have looked at signing Riske. We need one more strong arm in the Bullpen – we also need a non-terrible version of Aaron Sele for long relief
what, no “badumpbump” after that hilariously clever “risk on riske” joke? is this a metsblog or a stand up comedy venue in 1972?
And when we are through not getting Johan, we can then spend time not getting Bedard. Hilarious
Why do I get that awful feeling that we are all gonna sit and watch everyone decent get signed and then watch Omar either overpay for somebody that’s shaky and/or invite every scrub he can to ST?
I’m withholding judgement on Omar until after the winter meetings. If he flies out of Nashville with bupkis, I think I might start getting a little antsy – especially if Haren or even Blanton end up being traded next week.
Wow, a sane poster on Metsblog. Imagine that.
There are a few of us in here – our numbers appear low due to the recent influx of New Mets fans ;)
I don’t understand why the Mets didn’t make more of an effort for Riske. I guess it depends on how many years (and dollars) were involved in that multi-year deal. If it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $40M/4years, I can understand Omar passing. But if it was something like $10M/2, I have to wonder why the Mets weren’t in it. It seems to me Riske would have been a decent addition to the bullpen.
I don’t mind this at all. There are fewer things in baseball as stupid as giving a middle reliever a multiyear deal when he’s coming off a good year. Bullpens are a crap shoot.
is it standard these days to give mediocre relief pitchers multi year deals of 3+ years?
Completely agree that chasing after middle relievers is a risky business. Bullpens are so fickle, good to bad, bad to good from one year to the next. Starting pitching is where most effort and money should be concentrated. There’s a reason guys are relievers and not startes – they just not that good. The bullpen is a roll of the dice every single year.
That being said I do not want to see Maine traded in a deal for Blanton or Haren. Maine and Blanton are probably a wash now and Maine could be Haren next year. Don’t do it. From a post last week I think…I would trade Milledge, Heilman and Humber for Haren.
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