Don't Trade Jarrod Washburn! (Or If You Do, Get A Lot For Him)
By Damon Agnos in Mariners
Wednesday, Jul. 30 2008 @ 2:51PM
He's the only Mariner who's won a World Series, and his new split-finger fastball, which he allegedly learned from J.J. Putz sometime around early June, has been paying huge dividends. A quick check of his splits (no pun intended) shows that early June is about when J-Wash started to turn it around. And the splitter is being noted as the key to his new success.
Granted, the Mariners need to clean house and start over. And maybe that means moving Washburn. But let's not make a panic trade. I'm willing to part with the bathwater, but it'd be nice to hold on to the baby.
5 comment(s)
happy agent says:
totally agree on not trading washburn...i have watched a lot of games that he has pitched and it looks like he is just not getting good support from the rest of teh guys..i think that with a better team behind him he would have a much better record than he does--clearly not a Cy Young candidate, but a force to be reckoned with for sure.
great point on the split finger fastball...think how good he will be once he has the entire offseason to master it.
Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 30 2008 @ 3:09PM
Ivy says:
Trade Washburn? A horrible idea. Example: The Blue Jays game. 3 strike-outs, only one base walk - and all this while being bombarded by reporters about being traded to the Yanks. Clearly, the guy is a pro and it would be a shame to loose him on the verge of what could very well be a repeat of his 2002 Anaheim record. Don't do it, Mariners!
Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 30 2008 @ 3:27PM
Patton Richard says:
THANK YOU DAMON!
I can't believe we're putting this guy on the block when next year we're going to be contenders again! We're just having a lot of bad luck this year. Washburn with his amazing split-finger will give the M's one of the best 1-3 starters in all of baseball.. He's just begun showing the world what he is capable of now.
Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 30 2008 @ 3:45PM
ILikeOPS says:
M's better not give in a deal Washburn for just Melky and Gardner. Washburn with his splitter is an ace type pitcher, and should be dealt for a package that resembles that.
Kershaw, Kemp, McDonald?
A-Jax, DeLeon, Hughes?
Lester, Lars Anderson, Lowrie?
That's the type of return I expect.
Posted On: Thursday, Jul. 31 2008 @ 2:02AM
Seely says:
Hate to break it to you guys, but I think Damon's post was tinged with sarcasm. Not only should the M's have traded Washburn, they should have traded anyone that any other team was willing to take off their hands, including Ichiro.
Posted On: Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 11:56AM