i agree, when healthy, patterson has good stuff.  he's not quite ace material yet, but eventually he will be fully healthy, and will be a great pickup for any team that needs some starting pitching.

but with young pitchers like chico, hanrahan, lannan to name a few, ready for the bigs now, i suppose patterson and his higher-than-the-rest-of-the-players salary were expendible.

patterson needs to be paired up with barry zito.  i mean seriously; part of the likely reason that patterson was cut was his finicky health, that team physicians and local physicians couldn't figure out what was wrong with him other than the "forearm" issue he always claimed to have.  he event went as far as to cross to canada to find some new age healer for diagnosis.

with this kind of fluff in his head, there's no better place for him to be than next to fellow new age nut, barry zito, out in san francisco.  that way, when he's healthy, we won't have to deal with him too often, either.

perfected the titanium replacement shoulder yet? If so I'll take him. But until then he is about like hampton. Just no faith that he will ever pitch. We have young pitchers we can waste resources on.