Bye Bye Blaine Boyer

by gondeee on Apr 18, 2009 12:43 PM EDT

The 2009 Atlanta Braves bullpen shakeup has officially begun. Blaine Boyer was designated for assignment today to make room for Jo-Jo Reyes. This means that the team has 10 days to trade him or put him on waivers for the purpose of sending him to the minors (or something like that). It's been a long and slow fall for Blaine, who was all-everything setup man in 2005, then got injured and missed most of 2006 and 2007.

Boyer had appeared in three games this season for Atlanta, posting a record of 0-1 with a 40.50 ERA. The righty gave up six runs on three hits and three walks in just 1 1/3 innings.

Blaine is a good guy and he's shown flashes of brilliance in the past, but overuse last year (he appeared in 76 games) translated into inneffectiveness this year, which is weird because he was great in spring training. Get ready for the be-all end-all buzzword for 2009 -- "dead arm."

I don't want to panic, but it might be time to get some "live-armed" young kids in the pen... I'm looking at you killer-M's -- Morton and Medlen.

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long, sigh of relief

"The future is no place to place your better days." - Dave Matthews

by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Apr 18, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

REJOICE!

How long until our “professional hitter” gets the same treatment?

Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?

Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.

by FrankyWren on Apr 18, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions

I say we call up BJones AND Blanco

This is getting pathetic

"The future is no place to place your better days." - Dave Matthews

by Chief Noc-A-Homa on Apr 18, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

BJones I agree w/ ...

but we all knew JS would be up and down offensively. They won’t send him down anytime soon.

Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?

Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.

by FrankyWren on Apr 18, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Are you kidding just f*ck the season lol. Call up Freeman, Hanson, Heyward maybe we can get some late innings out of Kimbrel too. We gotta plan for the future baby forget anyone over 25.

"The only time the Mets win is in the offseason"

by Falconzfan284 on Apr 18, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m pretty sure we have guys at A-ball that can out-pitch some of the people who’ve made appearances in our pen this year.

Tommy Hanson 4 ROY

by timmy3 on Apr 18, 2009 2:15 PM EDT reply actions

Doesnt't matter

If the offense can’t even put up ONE run through nine freakin’ innings.

they’re pathetic.

by ChipperTeixeira89 on Apr 18, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions

This team has stopped playing in April.

Anyone paying to see these bums is crazy.

Tommy Hanson 4 ROY

by timmy3 on Apr 18, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm pretty sure that an exaggeration ...

but I feel your pain.

Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?

Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.

by FrankyWren on Apr 18, 2009 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Addition by subtraction

at it’s finest

by MatM on Apr 18, 2009 3:02 PM EDT reply actions

hopefully this puts the rest of the bullpen on alert, if you cant find the strike zone you can go find a job with the royals or natspos.

hindsight is 20-13 just like Ted William actual vision- ken tremendous

by heapofoatmeal on Apr 18, 2009 3:35 PM EDT reply actions

Sorry...can't agree with you on this one...

I’m not a believer in Morton. He was mediocre at best last year in his starts. Jo Jo has shown already that he isn’t the answer. It seems to me that we’ll be seeing Hansen a lot sooner than anyone expected.

by opoverlord on Apr 18, 2009 6:52 PM EDT reply actions