Piniero to LAA, 2 Years/$16MM

[Funketown]

http://www.mlbtraderumors...hoice-is-the-angels.html

 

Pending physical. Cue the Randy Wolf and Doug Davis comments

[Ennder]

Unless last year turns out to be for real I'd say Wolf and Davis are both better than Piniero. So hard to tell when someone pitches so out of normal expectations in their early 30s.

[sheetswannabe]

Not a bad contract for him, but he is coming off his best year and he's 31.

[Invader3K]

Slight overpay, IMHO, but it's not like LAA can't really afford it.

[stoutdude04]

I thought they said 3 year deal on espn.

 

Which of course really means nothing.

[LouisEly]

Rather had this deal than Wolf's, simply because he is RH with RH-heavy lineups in the division (Pujols, Holliday, Ludwick, D. Lee, A. Ramirez, Soriano, C. Lee, Pence).

[TooLiveBrew]

So the Mets didn't get Piniero... which means I have to agree even more with JohnBriggs that they sign Sheets.

[davemakovec]

I don't think Pineiro is for real. That career-best-at-31 season sure looks like an outlier to me. The Angels are not paying much, and have the money to absorb a hit, so it will not hurt them, but I just do not think his one good year will be sustainable.

[JohnBriggs12]

For one, I'm glad to see Pineiro out of St. Louis and out of the NL entirely. I would have preferred him over Wolf myself, especially on a 2 year deal but at least he won't torment the Brewer hitters this year.

 

TooLiveBrew: Sheets does look like Met now doesn't he?

[hawing]

I'll take Sheets as a Met over Sheets as a Cub.

[joepepsi]

Looks like the market is set. Expect the remaining pitchers to all fall in line in the next week or so.

[CheezWizHed]

Did the Cardinals really make much of an effort to sign Piniero? I don't remember hearing anyone talk about it. If not, that would seem to be a big indicator... they seem to know when to let people walk.

[sheetskout]

Did the Cardinals really make much of an effort to sign Piniero? I don't remember hearing anyone talk about it. If not, that would seem to be a big

indicator... they seem to know when to let people walk.

Not that I noticed. They are too busy scrambling to get their pieces in place to resign Pujols. And that included signing Holliday.