Red Sox Exercise Option On Scott Atchison
by Ben Buchanan on Nov 4, 2010 2:19 PM EDT
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PrintThe Red Sox will exercise their option on Scott Atchison, bringing the reliever back to the team for the 2011 season.
While Atchison was not spectacular by any means in 2010, it was a fairly obvious move to bring him back. Providing decent middle-inning relief, Atchison comes incredibly cheap and is, if nothing else, dependably average. The Sox have a pretty empty bullpen, so every non-disaster arm counts.
Atchison returned to the United States after two years in Japan to bring his daughter closer to the doctors she needed to treat a bone condition she was born with. The Red Sox picked him up as a free agent, allowing him a chance to earn a spot in the bullpen out of Spring Training.
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Good re-signing
Need more bullpen help though.
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I like Atchison
I’m happy with this move. Never hurts to have a cheap reliever who was pretty successful the previous season.
Beginning of the Sarkisian ERA
ran out of gas at the end
Atchison seemed to be really hot in august but then his ERA started going up near the end.. we should pedro feliciano, balfour, and benoit
i think that's because he worked a lot more than he should've
he’s a fine reliever, but shouldn’t be the 2nd or 3rd best reliever in a bullpen. Probably he’s fine used where he should be, as a 6th inning guy through the year. None of those guys are gonna be had for league minimum, so this frees up money to spend on actual good relievers (which may include one or two of those guys)
I bet he is released or sent to AAA before July 1
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Atchison has no option years remaining.
And the bullpen that I want to see has no room on the 25 man roster for Atchison on opening day. Atchison the family man, I cheer for but on this years team, he’s not on my 25 man opening day roster.
Invite to spring training with a chance to make the team, no guarantees even if he is at a bargain price. But he does get an invite.
Downs, Papelbon (wish this was Soriano), Bard, Doubront, Putz, Wake
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I'd like to keep Okajima but in my scenario that's 3 lefties and not happening
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Downs is the key.
Lefties in the pen are hard to come by.
Papelbon – closer to open season
Bard – 8th inning RH, highest leverage situation pitcher
Downs- 8th inning LH, highest leverage vs lefty bats
Doubront- 7th inning LH
Wake – longman, spot starter when needed
And any two who may slip because of Type A or B status from this list :
Benoit, Soriano, Putz, Guerrier, Balfour, Saito.
Next tier: Farnsworth, Atchison, Dotel, Clippard (Tyler by trade… I liked watching him pitch this year).
On the farm we would still have Tazawa, Richardson, Bowden, Coello, and Fox all on the 40 man ready for another test in the bigs.
I'd also take a gamble on Kerry Wood
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I'd pass on Woods
but I’d add Okajima or Fuentes to the end of the fall through the cracks dream list but if we get Downs, I’d pass here too.
I don't like the idea of signing Soriano
He’s going to get closer money, and he wouldn’t be closing on our team. (Unless, of course, we trade/non-tender Papelbon, which I have no problem with)…
I don't care if the FO invites 20 guys to spring training
as long as 7 are better than Scott ‘10. I agree he was asked to do more than he should have, and he may have had more success in the sixth inning only role but I really want this bullpen fixed this year and in the first week of November I’m not settling for Atchison as a gauranteed spot in the bullpen. He might not even show up this spring with last years arm.
Invite to spring training with a chance to make the team.
And I’ve been an Atchison supporter in ‘10. I’m I asking to much for our bullpen to be one of our strengths this year?
I bet he is back in Japan before July 1
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playing with Berkshire in the make believe league
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It's possible, but I'm not sure I see it.
Between the possibilities that
A) We dump Papelbon
B) Doubront stays in the minors
C) None of the minor leaguers steps up enough to warrant a look
I think he could definitely have a place on the team all year, even with FA acquisitions.
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by Ben Buchanan on Nov 5, 2010 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm guessing Doubront goes through a path
where he begins the year starting in AAA and finishes it relieving in Boston
Always liked him.
It was fantastic that he had an option left last year.
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His flexibility with the option last year did help us
bring up other relievers for a look and then bring Scott back up but we all know that option year is burnt. What was our total last year, 25 pitchers in the bullpen over the coarse of the year? Maybe 26?
His stuff is pretty mediocre
The reason he had early success is because hitters hadn’t seen his stuff before. As they got more and more looks his stats got worse and worse. Hopefully he won’t continue his slide next season.
Actually, early on, he was awful
Then he got better
Then he flared out in the last month.
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by Ben Buchanan on Nov 5, 2010 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions
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