Brewers to attend Corderos session

[sheetswannabe]

Brewers are interested in Chad Cordero

 

High risk, High reward type guy

 

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[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Besides his injury problems last year, he's had a really good start to his career. He's still only going to be 27 years old this season so I say go get him in a 1 year deal with an option and make him our closer barring good health. If we don't get Hoffman, this would be a good plan B.

[Invader3K]

He's OK. I don't know if you could automatically pencil him into the closer's spot, though.

[brewmann04]

i can 't see why they can add him along with Mulder the MLB network guys seem to think he has a shot

[Crazyk1294]

Do it. Get as many relievers in here as possible, someone is bound to stick, right?

[sheetswannabe]

Sounds like Dougie is going to drop the ball on Hoff. This is getting sickening. Why not, Just sign Cordero, he could be pretty good.

[Yeti73]

Last time we took a flier on a Cordero who was down on his luck (yeah, not as bad as Chad), it turned out okay. Coco was in the middle of a mediocre season following a poor season when we got him for Lee. Based on that logic I say we give him an offer immediately.

[jwill535]

Sounds like Dougie is going to drop the ball on Hoff. This is getting sickening. Why not, Just sign Cordero, he could be pretty good.

Please explain dropping the ball. All things equal and he picks the Dodgers because he wants to stay closer to home, how is that Melvin's fault. Do you really want him to offer Trevor more then he should be worth only to try to convince him to leave his comfort zone?

 

As for Cordero, if he looks healthy I would certainly sign him to an incentives deal as an insurance policy for whom ever we have closing similar to Jeff Weaver last year.

[MillerParkSouth]

in my opinion, Cordero isn't that great, even when healthy. This seems like a Mark Prior kind of deal. High reward, low risk, but really probably won't work out at all.

[PeaveyFury]

in my opinion, Cordero isn't that great, even when healthy.

 

He's had ERA's of 2.94, 1.82, 3.19, and 3.36 in his 4 full seasons in the Majors so far, so he's pretty good.

[twobrewers]

The story is that we are going to attend his session.

 

I think any team worth a darn should do their due diligence and attend. Not much of a story really.

[BrewCrewForever]

I think I would rather sign Lyon or Saito then Cordero. Just me though.

[brewtank34]

I have voiced my interest in Cordero in a couple of posts now, but I feel we have a better shot at getting Hoffman....there's too many other teams interested in Cordero, and we're 1 of 2 teams interested in Hoffman. I'd hate to lose out on any/all of our FA attempts. Get the deal done with Hoffman and what falls after that falls after that.....

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

I would still pursue Cordero or another reliever. You can never have too many quality relievers given the volatility of their stats from year to year.

[JohnBriggs12]

If he's healthy Cordero will want a shot at closing. The signing of Hoffman precludes that.

 

They're better off bringing back Mota or a long reliever/spot starter type like a John Parrish who won't cost much.

[parkside21]

Has there been any update yet on Cordero's session? Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but I can't find anything. Maybe there's nothing to report, he and his agent will say he felt/looked great, and teams that attended will be mum about their free agent interest and say he's "one of many directions we are interested in evaulating" yada yada. However, I'm now kind of wondering if we haven't heard anything because maybe he didn't look very impressive? I assume he could get a better offer if healthy, but I'd love to see him get a shot at the set-up role, and if all goes well he steps in as closer next year. Pie in the sky?

[GAME05]

all i've heard is that Washington has a renewed interest in him, and all things considered, he would certainly have a better chance to close games in Washington than Milwaukee.

 

guess i don't put too much consideration into any team watching a demonstration throw, just because it doesn't take a whole lot to send a local scout to do a report on it. that Milwaukee was represented i see mostly as due diligence than for a strong interest in signing him.

[Fatter than Joey]

They're better off bringing back Mota

 

Unless you mean Manny Mota -- Guillermo signed with the Dodgers...

[PeaveyFury]

Unless you mean Manny Mota -- Guillermo signed with the Dodgers...

 

Briggs' post was made on January 8th, 6 days before Mota signed with LA, FWIW.

[Fatter than Joey]

He should have known it was going to happen....

 

Oops.

[areacodes]

Has there been any update yet on Cordero's session? Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but I can't find anything. Maybe there's nothing to report, he and his agent will say he felt/looked great, and teams that attended will be mum about their free agent interest and say he's "one of many directions we are interested in evaulating" yada yada. However, I'm now kind of wondering if we haven't heard anything because maybe he didn't look very impressive? I assume he could get a better offer if healthy, but I'd love to see him get a shot at the set-up role, and if all goes well he steps in as closer next year. Pie in the sky?

The most recent thing from the Brewers perspective is from TH's blog from the 17th:

 

Ash said the Brewers were still discussing whether to put in an offer to the agent of former Washington closer Chad Cordero, who held a throwing session in California last week for interested clubs. Cordero is coming off shoulder surgery and is not expected to be ready to pitch until a month or two into the season.

"It's a risk decision," said Ash. "It's a matter of how much (financial) risk you want to take. His agent has let it be known he's going to sign somewhere."

Otherwise, as GAME05 said, there appears to be renewed interest from Washington and mlbtraderumors.com has the Marlins and Dodgers as expressing interest in him.

[Ennder]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/39688602.html

 

General manager Doug Melvin's special scouting assistant, Dick Groch, will be on hand Wednesday in California for the next throwing session by Chad Cordero

 

"We have interest in him," said Melvin. "This will be his first workout off the mound. We'll wait until we get the report."

 

 

Man if we picked someone like Cordero or Cruz up we could really have a nice bullpen.

[Patrick425]

From Antanasio's comments in the paper this morning regarding his concerns about the payroll, it doesn't seem likely that the Brewers will be making any additional acquisitions before the season starts.

 

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/39798682.html

[Invader3K]

Maybe they could get him to take a minor league deal, with some kind of guarantee that he would be up by the end or the year, or something along those lines? Maybe a deal like the one they gave Gagne, where if he's not in the majors by a certain point, he can go back to free agency.

[CheezWizHed]

Given his previous history, I would think this would take some a MiLB contract with MLB incentives if he is called up. Prob more than Gagne's.