Red Sox Sign Eric Gagne to Major League Deal
by Ben Buchanan on Apr 1, 2010 12:54 PM EDT
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PrintApparently, the Sox really don't like the options they have for the final bullpen spot right now. Per multiple reports, the team has signed Eric Gagne to a $1 million, 1-year deal.
Regarded as one of the league's top closers a few years ago, Gagne has struggled through the last few years, finding himself out of the MLB for extend periods of time. It seems like Gagne has been guaranteed the final spot in the bullpen, and will be used in mostly the 6th and 7th innings.
Let's hope he can come through this time.
Fans of the Sox will remember Gagne for his disastrous time with the team in 2007. Obtained from the Dodgers in a deadline deal, Gagne was intended to create a dominant 1-2 punch with Jonathan Papelbon for the stretch run. Once he got here, though, he was completely ineffective, with an ERA of 6.75 over 18.2 innings. Little changed in the postseason, as he allowed 3 runs in 4.1 innings.
Sox officials have not yet commented on the signing, but are likely to make the announcement sometime tomorrow.
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WHAT?!?!
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Low-risk, high-reward?
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better be
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im gonna be all up on you like a spider monkey!
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by remembering9ergods on Apr 1, 2010 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm hearing it from a few different sources on Twitter...
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Why?
I’m not an MLB free agent expert, but is there really no better option out there than Gagne? This makes the Sox seem desperate.
Ha ha ha ha
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
I have a five-tool player in my pants.
ACTUALLY, advanced metrics show that that wasn't "premature".
@#$%ing Twit: @blogtard
Screw that...
…now I have to pick vomit chunks out of my keyboard.
Rock me, sexy Jesus...
by nuthinboutnuthin on Apr 1, 2010 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm going to Topeka this and make sure it's for real.
"You know you're having a bad day when the fifth inning rolls around and they drag the warning track." - Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles pitcher, 1992.
by SoxDevil on Apr 1, 2010 2:03 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
+1
No situation has arisen over the last 2 hours to let me use topeka as a verb.
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I had to topeka my way through google before I got there….
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I have no idea what that means.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
I have a five-tool player in my pants.
ACTUALLY, advanced metrics show that that wasn't "premature".
@#$%ing Twit: @blogtard
That's awesome!
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
I have a five-tool player in my pants.
ACTUALLY, advanced metrics show that that wasn't "premature".
@#$%ing Twit: @blogtard
Good try guys
It would have been more believable if the price was under $1mil considering the dodgers released him with a minor league contract.
What about Julio Lugos imminent return??
And I hear Ted Williams is being unfrozen and brought back to play this year as well!
And Not an April's Fools joke...
"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko
by sox-inda-south on Apr 1, 2010 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
..again
stupid deal! as we remember it was a bad idea in 2007 and probably will be in 2010
Well, let's just say this.
At least this isn’t Julio Lugo. I would rather have Gagne with our defense than have Lugo. But I am positive this is an April Fools joke.
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