The Cardinals have signed former Atlanta Braves left-handed reliever Royce Ring.
We had designated him for assignment on August 2nd of last year. That essentially ends the whole Will Ledezma/Will Startup -- Macay McBride trade haul. Poor Royce was used weirdly by Cox last year. I thought he had more than Cox let him show. We used Ohman all the time, but didn't want to use Ring at all. Maybe it's just me, but I thought he had more to offer than we got out of him.
[UPDATE - 1/6/09, 8:13am]
Waddayaknow, it seems as though the Washington Nationals have signed Wil Ledezma. All of our former lefties are signing this week, could Will Ohman be far behind?
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Royce was pretty damn solid as a LOOGY for a good bit of this past season.
Smoltz's Beard - January 5, 2009
Yeah, I’m sure somebody can pull up the splits, but the first half of the year, before the rotation imploded and they used Ring as a situational lefty, he was pretty dominant. Hope he does well with St. Louis, Royce is a great guy.
cbwilk - January 5, 2009
i’m not even going to fangraphs for this…
vs RHB: .419/..471/..674
vs LHB: .264/.339/..396
thats a FOUR HUNDRED POINT OPS DIFFERENCE. and the numbers vs lefties were even lower before he started being used in full innings…his second half numbers are laughably bad. WHIP is, i shit you not, over 5
bigjoe - January 5, 2009
NOOOOOOO! NOT THE RING OF FIRE!
bigjoe - January 5, 2009
Gondee
Good Post Gondee
Whodunnit?4040 - January 5, 2009
What was it that Boog kept calling his curveball? He kept saying it was “one of those texas rodeo curves” or something. Maybe I’m crazy though.
Bmacbandwagon - January 5, 2009
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