Woohoo! Ramon Ortiz! From Twinsbaseball.com "The Twins added Ramon Ortiz as a starting rotation option Monday with a one-year deal. Ortiz, who went 11-16 with a 5.57 ERA for Washington last season, joins a potential rotation of Johan Santana, Boof Bonser, Carlos Silva and Sidney Ponson." I am sure that every other team in the AL, save for KC and Tampa Bay, are just shaking in their boots when presented with that rotation. Are the Twins so bored in the AL Central that they are actively trying to make it more difficult for themselves? Or do they think that Morneau and Mauer, both of whom kick serious ass, BTW, are good enough by themselves to counter the 6-run deficit that Ortiz is going to spot them? Oh, yeah, and $3.1 mill for one season. Since a baseball season is 162 games long, and a starting pitcher who doesn't miss a scheduled start or get yanked from the rotation will generally pitch 32-33 starts a season (1/5 of the team's games), that works out to around $96875/start. If he wins like he did last season, at a blistering 11/33 clip, that translates to around $280,000/win, and $193,750/loss. So, I guess that makes him a bargain, right, if a win is worth 45% more than a loss?
Of course, if Ortiz does turn out to put up decent numbers (I didn't much of Silva before, well, ever) I'll happily recant and admit I was wrong. In fact, here's a bet: If Ortiz wins more than 15 games and has an ERA under 4.00, I'll, do something really humiliating.
Since no one is reading that, I'm pretty sure I'll never have to pay up.
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