Eric O'Flaherty

by TradeAndruw on Nov 20, 2008 7:02 PM EST

The first big move of the offseason:

"According to Larry LaRue of The Tacoma News Tribune, the Braves claimed southpaw reliever Eric O'Flaherty off waivers from the Mariners today. O'Flaherty, 24 in February, was terrible in seven appearances with the Ms this year and struggled with walks and hits allowed in Triple A. In 2007, though, he held lefties to a .183/.278/.204 line.

I sure hope we use him as a LOOGY, and this isn't an Ohman replacement. Here are his numbers (if the formatting holds). Not pretty, I sepecially don't like the walks.

From scout.com:

"O’Flaherty has a fastball in the mid-90s, a tough slider and is developing a change.

Last 3 years	Team	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP	BAA
2006	SEA	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	11.0	18	9	5	2	6	6	4.09	2.18	.360
2007	SEA	56	0	7	1	0	0	0	52.1	45	26	26	1	20	36	4.47	1.24	.232
2008	SEA	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	6.2	16	15	15	2	4	4	20.25	3.00	.457

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If he wasn’t good enough to be a Mariner, why the hell did we claim him?

by Rhyno18 on Nov 20, 2008 7:08 PM EST reply actions

Norton wasn’t good enough to be a Mariner either

by someguy917 on Nov 20, 2008 11:41 PM EST up reply actions

Nice reply. Well. done.

by cbwilk on Nov 21, 2008 1:52 AM EST up reply actions

Good point

I won’t hate him until I see what he can do in a game for us.

by Rhyno18 on Nov 21, 2008 2:11 PM EST up reply actions

As far as free talent goes, O’Flaherty is pretty solid. He could certainly settle into the pen as a cheap LOOGY. I hope this precludes us from giving a guaranteed mutli-million contract to Will Ohman.

by 17843 on Nov 20, 2008 7:18 PM EST reply actions

im new to talkingchop, but pretty much good with the baseball lingo, but what in the hell is a LOOGY?

by heap16 on Nov 20, 2008 9:32 PM EST up reply actions

Lefthanded one out guy i do believe.

by DMac142005 on Nov 20, 2008 9:44 PM EST up reply actions

thanks!

by heap16 on Nov 20, 2008 9:57 PM EST up reply actions

his 07 nbrs are very encouraging and we could just chalk up his problems with the fact that he had a bad year, it seems like a good risk to take

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by Swo12bv on Nov 20, 2008 7:30 PM EST reply actions

Look At The Splits.

His overall numbers are meaningless. Despite some struggles in the majors, he’s held lefties to a .231/.309/.308 line in 130 AB. He’s only 24, dirt cheap and has some upside as a LOOGY. This is free talent and I like the move. If you look at Will Ohman’s 2006-2007 overall stats, you would have never understodd why we got him in a trade.

Here we go again: http://thefulldeck.blogspot.com/

by ejruiz on Nov 20, 2008 8:03 PM EST reply actions

Better LOOGY split than Royce Ring. Gees I hope he never has to pitch to righties though. Like a .900 OPS split vs them.

by VictorW on Nov 21, 2008 10:20 AM EST up reply actions

i like his name. so i approve.

Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.

by bigjoe on Nov 20, 2008 8:55 PM EST reply actions

I'll drink to that...

and you can never have enough LH relief — also a pretty reasonable priced option.

by BBFAN46 on Nov 21, 2008 11:43 AM EST up reply actions

could be useful or he could be resop 2.0. but a young, live armed lefty for free? sure why not. he cant be any worse than ridgway who we gave up aybar and fontaine for. have we punted on 2009 yet or are we waiting to try to top the crazy dollars being given to average and slightly above average pitchers?

by jeg on Nov 21, 2008 2:48 AM EST reply actions

Oh god Ridgway…

by VictorW on Nov 21, 2008 10:18 AM EST up reply actions

yeah, that was a trainwreck

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There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
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by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 21, 2008 12:45 PM EST up reply actions

*is

remember when we gave up willy aybar, who now has an AL championship ring to his credit, AND another prospect for him? yeah, slick move there wren.

Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.

by bigjoe on Nov 21, 2008 8:15 PM EST up reply actions

In Wren’s defense, I wouldn’t want anybody with his problems on my team either.

by DMac142005 on Nov 21, 2008 9:05 PM EST up reply actions

I have to agree with this – the Braves gave him more than enough chances to clean his act up, and he gave no indication that he was ever going to get better. From injury, to drugs, to booze, to insubordination, etc. It turned into one of those situations, where a change of scenery was the only thing that could help him.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Nov 21, 2008 10:27 PM EST up reply actions

And Ridgway was very dominant for Durham in 2007. He threw in the high 90s and had great control. He never looked like the same pitcher with the Braves, his velocity was down and his control escaped him.

by cbwilk on Nov 22, 2008 2:54 AM EST up reply actions