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Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
Dodgers Sign David Wells
The Dodgers signed David Wells according to ESPN's Buster Olney (h/t Jon). There's been a decent amount of talk about how Wells had delivered four quality starts in five tries from June 21 through July 16, but what gets missed there is that Boomer's getting shelled, allowing a .315/.356/.478 line against overall and a .443/.478/.738 line over his last month, with a 10.72 ERA in the second half. His road ERA this year away from Petco's spacious confines is 7.99, more than double his home 3.91 ERA. Those numbers are actually worse than some of the splits from Mark Hendrickson and Brett Tomko, though oddly, Tomko seems to do better on the road than at home.
This is a garbage-time signing that has little chance of succeeding, and I'm going to project that Wells has a very high chance to suffer a similar fate to that of Byung-Hyun Kim with the Diamondbacks, in and out of the club after a few disastrous starts. What a pity about James McDonald.
Update: MSTI (which sounds like the first version of MST3K, only 2,999 revisions and one number system earlier) likes this signing if only because
David Wells might be old, broken-down, and expensive, but there is one stat he’s off the charts on - his NBT ranking is 112,073%! The NBT, of course, is “Not Brett Tomko”. If Wells is pitching for the Blue on Sunday night, that means Brett Tomko is not pitching for the Blue on Sunday night. Considering that at this point, I’d take Dave Dravecky over Tomko (what, too soon?), this is a huge bonus.
Labels: dodgers, stupid ideas, transactions
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