Jose Quintana could end up being a really nice pickup.

[ten ocho recon scout]

9 hours ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

A healthy Ohtani is as good a pitcher as there is, plus he can hit a baseball as far as Bo Jackson. 

Funny enough. Was gonna comment that in my ohtani thread. 

Obviously 2 different sports is a lot tougher. Like much harder.

But this is as close to that as anything else since Bo and Neon Deion

[ten ocho recon scout]

5 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

I would definitely like another pitcher but I think people are sleeping on Buttrey. 

It's insane how fickle bullpens are. It's basically a crapshoot. 

Are you saying butt(rey) is a crapshoot?

[Inside Pitch]

12 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Are you saying butt(rey) is a crapshoot?

Maybe he meant crap-chute

[Angel Oracle]

20 hours ago, Warfarin said:

Yeah, I think we see that same recurring theme over and over again, and it makes sense.  A lot of relievers are pitchers who couldn't quite make it as a SP, usually because they couldn't develop a third effective pitch (and other times for things like injuries, etc).  So they are highly dependent on two pitches that work well, and if one of those pitches takes a step back, they effectively get lit up - and hence, are highly volatile.

Buttrey is someone I think can be very good for us.  If he can recapture his previous form, he's a really dependable high-leverage reliever.  Hard to say how things will pan out, but if he does pitch well, we could have a pretty nifty late inning core.

Point taken, but Shane Greene is an example of a reliever who has 4 different pitches that he throws, maybe a reason that his hard hit% is solid?

Something is keeping a solid enough reliever from being signed this late into ST.