Mariners Signed Mark Worrell

by Matthew on Jul 5, 2010 3:04 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Transactions

A.K.A. the crappy Worrell, Mark was a Cardinal traded with Luke Gregerson to the Padres for Khalil Greene. Gregerson became a dynamo with 51 strikeouts, six walks and one of baseball's best swinging strike rates to go along with an usually non-fly ball heavy batted ball profile.

Khalil Greene went on to become even more Khalil Greene and Mark Worrell underwent Tommy John surgery. Prior to the surgery, Worrell has struck out 80 Triple-A hitters in 58 innings which if you're curious is good.

The strikeouts and the walks both dropped in 2010 as Worrell has worked his way back but an abysmal strand rate left his RA close to double digits and perhaps contributed to him being available for Zduriencik to poach.

Worrell, 27, is already with Tacoma's bullpen. If he regains his pre-Tommy John 2008 form, he makes for a nice cheap bullpen addition. The sort of depth moves the team needs to be making for when having a good bullpen will matter.

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I actually really like this signing.

His K rates were still decent this year. I think he has a very good shot at being better than much of our current bullpen.

by Fuckmikereilly on Jul 5, 2010 3:38 PM PDT reply actions

He has some reasoning there.

Austin Bibens-Dirkx turned out okay after he got in an organization that no longer cared about what kind of delivery he was using. Making parallels between the previous administration and the current one is probably a bit much though.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors

by JY on Jul 6, 2010 5:18 AM PDT up reply actions