Braves Sign Peter Moylan To Minor League Deal
by SCrebel10 on Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM EST
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The Braves have signed right-handed reliever and fan favorite Peter Moylan to a minor league deal, according to a tweet from David O'Brien at the AJC.
Moylan had been with the Braves since 2006, but was non-tendered after a 2011 season that saw him have surgery on both his back and shoulder. He's made a quick recovery, and is supposed to ready early in the season.
According to O'Brien, Moylan's contract would pay him a prorated $1 million for time in the majors, along with other incentives. The deal also includes an invitation to spring training.
To be honest, I'll be surprised if Moylan can come back from two very serious surgeries and still pitch at a high level. Because it's a minor league deal, there isn't much risk here for the Braves though.
He'll have to compete for a spot in a very talented Braves bullpen. The Braves also have Cory Gearrin, who is very similar to Moylan, so the Australian sidearmer will have to impress to earn a spot in the major league pen.
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PeMo!
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by jrodisjust2cool on Jan 17, 2012 7:30 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I doubt he was going to get much more than this elsewhere, and if the Braves were offering this, it makes sense for all parties. I’m pretty glad to have him still be around in some capacity.
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Kinda funny...
He’s the gizzled old vet in the ’Pen, now…. at 33 years old with parts of only six ML seasons under his belt…. and the same number of years in American professional baseball!
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Agree with all of the previous comments, Love to have the guy back
But out of curiousity…Does this mean that he can sit on the bench with the guys before he gets healthy???
But anyways I believe this truly speaks volumes of how badly PeMo wanted to stay in Atlanta with all of his buds. For him to take 1mil, and do it soo quickly says pretty much that there was absolutely no chance he was going elsewhere, of course unless Atl didn’t want him. Although he will be coming off of injuries, PeMo has been one of the more effective RH Pen Arms goin in the bigs for the past couple of years, and almost surely if proven healthy he could and would have demanded more then his contract entails as of now.
Regardless just want the guy healthy, and back in the pen, mostly because I really do not trust Gearrin whatsoever!! Hopefully, I am wrong and proven greatly wrong, but until Gearrin locks down his control issues, when he is off his game it will continue to be FUGLY when he walks onto the mound.
Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep.
I like Cory Gearrin’s potential, but reaallly now, Moylan is an established ML pitcher. I guess Gearrin “is very similar to Moylan” in that he’s a RH RP who sidewinders, but the similarity pretty much stops there. At least, so far.
Gearrin did nothing but dominate in AAA last year. They throw at similar velocities and have the same kind of breaking pitch. Moylan is a great personality in the clubhouse, but his control has gotten worse each year in the majors and he’s missed two full seasons with injury. Hard to expect all that much of him this year.
well, i wouldnt say thats ALL he did
he did get rocked in the bigs too….
…in a grand total of 18.1 innings.
…where he posted a 2.59 FIP and 3.41 xFIP
Maybe I’m wrong in expecting a higher standard from this forum, but why even bother making any fuss over 18.1 major league innings?
18 outings, in 4 of those 18 he gave up multiple runs
to say he got rocked, several times, wouldn’t be inaccurate.
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by Mr. Sanchez on Jan 18, 2012 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
The game log kind of speaks for itself
he had too many walks. He had some horrible outings, but he had more strong ones. Good young arm, with loads of ability, that can hopefully keep his control next time he gets the call.
As for next year, he’s certainly in the competition for those last two bullpen spots, along with Varvaro, Hoover, Ascencio, Moylan, etc.
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by Mr. Sanchez on Jan 18, 2012 11:57 AM EST up reply actions
It was 18 innings. You might as well be talking about a spring training performance. 18 innings is meaningless. Pick an 18 inning span for literally any pitcher and you can say he “got rocked.”
So you agree, he got "rocked"
And no, that doesn’t work for “literally any pitcher”. Several have runs much longer, if not entire seasons, without having half the bad outings Gearrin had in his small sample. No one is stupid enough to say a poor sample at the beginning of a career is indicative that he’ll get rocked forever. Hell, it may be a Joey Devine like situation where a couple bad early outings got the kinks out before a ridiculous tear. But 18 innings, for a reliever, is actually a pretty sizeable chunk. For even the the most used relief arms, that’s 20-25+% of their entire season of work.
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I like Peter Moylan as well
But I have to agree with this. As well as what Mr. Sanchez mentioned about the walks and runs. If he does better this year, I will gladly eat crow as he seems like a really nice fella.
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by atlantaisbrave on Jan 20, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
This is basically the Proctor deal that was given out last year
Except this one has a chance of paying off!
by another simpsons avatar on Jan 17, 2012 8:12 PM EST reply actions
Hey now, the Proctor deal paid off plenty for the teams we faced…
by Ivan the Great on Jan 17, 2012 8:51 PM EST up reply actions
Didn't Proctor have a call me up or cut me clause?
Where he had to be part of the big league roster by a certain date, or we let him be a FA? Does Moylan’s deal have a similar clause?
http://sportsandgrits.com/
then I'd be interested to see if Moylan gets a similar...
I’m on the roster by June or July, or else I have the ability to opt out as a free agent. I’d expect he does when the details get released.
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by Mr. Sanchez on Jan 18, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
I’m guessing he doesn’t because of the injury. I’d have to think by now that if he were healthy the team would want him on the roster, and he’d know that, so there’s really no reason to force his hand.
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True, the injury does change things
but we’ve done it for Proctor, for Chris Respo, for Rodrigo Lopez, among others. And if injuries delay his season, that could be built in to the clause to create some leeway.
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Love this
win win situation
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Glad to have him back!
This guy needed some good things to happen to him. It has been a rough couple of years for him… Tommy John… Shoulder surgery… Non tendered…Marriage… A contract and a surgeon can fix a few of these things but he may never recover from the last one ! :-)
by cgros on Jan 17, 2012 11:16 PM EST via Android app reply actions
Hip, Hip, Hurray!
I don’t know what I would have done not seeing Moylan in a Braves jersey. One of my favorite players because he pitches like I use to in college and occasionally wears glasses (always got the back of the seeing impaired!). Our loyal Wilfred is back, hopefully he’ll stick to his uniform and not go cross dressing again!
Glad to see PeMo back
I would have missed Dave.
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I am in favor
(not that my opinion matters!). So let’s add another half million to my payroll estimate… bringing that to $90.5m. That assumes he eventually makes the team and meets a couple of incentives, costing the Braves about $500K above the amount I already had guessed for that bullpen slot (which was an ML Minimum $480K).
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I’m also guessing that the only remaining drama of this off-season is whether somebody comes a-begging for a starting pitcher. If Darvish fails to sign, then Frank could get a call about JJ. Not gonna hold my breath at this point, though.
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Love it!
Hopefully he’ll get his own post-game show on FoxSports/SportSouth (no offense to Brian Jordan and Ron Gant, even though – let’s face it – they are nigh unwatchable.)!
by Pope Vanderbilt on Jan 18, 2012 11:11 AM EST reply actions
I think its funny that he chose a dress to show off his cleavage!
The dress really brings out the color of his tatoos
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