Astros DFA Jerome Williams

[jshep]

Williams, a 32-year-old righty, signed a one-year, $2.1MM deal with Houston before the season. He owns a 5.91 ERA through 45 2/3 innings with the club, all in relief. He does own superior peripherals (7.1 K/9 against 3.0 BB/9) than those that he carried as a starter in previous seasons, and some ERA estimators looked more favorably on his work (4.70 FIP, 4.09 xFIP, 3.72 SIERA).

 

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/06/astros-designate-jerome-williams-for-assignment.html

 

[Taylor]

In before he gets picked up by the A's and posts a 2.50 ERA and 1.05 WHIP during the remainder of the season.

[ELEVEN]

Pick him up for the 2nd half

Loan him to the A's for a month to get him straightened out.

?????

Profit!

[DMVol]

DiPoto has hit some and missed some but letting JW walk was the right move...

[Butcher'd]

No surprise here. Williams will probably go play Indy ball or go overseas. 

[xboom28x]

Surprised this isn't 3 pages long with people begging to sign him to a minor league deal.

[laagamer]

I'm good on the whole Jerome thing.

 

Peripherals don't mean **** if you can't get anybody out. I like winning. 

Edited July 1, 2014 by laagamer

[Erstad Grit]

DiPoto has hit some and missed some but letting JW walk was the right move...

 

Yeah we really dodged that massive 2 million dollar nightmare. 

[ELEVEN]

Ibanez has a job and Jerome does not. Think about that.

[disarcina]

Williams (and Saunders, too) will probably ink a minor league deal with some team by mid-July and be back up as a September call up for some team that could use some long relief pen help/ depth.

 

I thought the Halos letting Williams walk was the right move......he pitched fairly effectively for us -- at times -- was widely inconsistent but had some good starts and then settled into a long relief pen role that seemed to suit him well.

 

I was one of those who felt we should have let him walk a year earlier than we did -- but he seemed to come around that final season with the Halos and pitched well (in streaks) for the Halos in his long relief pen role.

[tennischmp]

Surprised this isn't 3 pages long with people begging to sign him to a minor league deal.

He'd do better than Hill