Cardinals sign Royce Ring

by gondeee on Jan 5, 2009 3:55 PM EST in Free Agents Comment 6 comments

The Cardinals have signed former Atlanta Braves left-handed reliever Royce Ring.

We had designated him for assignment on August 2nd of last year. That essentially ends the whole Will Ledezma/Will Startup -- Macay McBride trade haul. Poor Royce was used weirdly by Cox last year. I thought he had more than Cox let him show. We used Ohman all the time, but didn't want to use Ring at all. Maybe it's just me, but I thought he had more to offer than we got out of him.

[UPDATE - 1/6/09, 8:13am]

Waddayaknow, it seems as though the Washington Nationals have signed Wil Ledezma. All of our former lefties are signing this week, could Will Ohman be far behind?

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Royce was pretty damn solid as a LOOGY for a good bit of this past season.

I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.

by Smoltz's Beard on Jan 5, 2009 4:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I’m sure somebody can pull up the splits, but the first half of the year, before the rotation imploded and they used Ring as a situational lefty, he was pretty dominant. Hope he does well with St. Louis, Royce is a great guy.

by cbwilk on Jan 5, 2009 4:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i’m not even going to fangraphs for this…

vs RHB: .419/..471/..674
vs LHB: .264/.339/..396

thats a FOUR HUNDRED POINT OPS DIFFERENCE. and the numbers vs lefties were even lower before he started being used in full innings…his second half numbers are laughably bad. WHIP is, i shit you not, over 5

BIG JOE SUCK ONE

by bigjoe on Jan 5, 2009 4:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs