Should The Red Sox Take A Chance On Scott Kazmir?

You really can’t have too much pitching. Additionally, I would love to keep another prospective starter away from the felons down south. However, I doubt that he would be willing to come here on a minor league deal; I’m sure that there’s a team blind enough to give him a role in their bullpen or as a prospective starter. But if he’s offered a minor league deal with substantial reward next year or this year if he makes the majors… that could get it done.

No.

But at the same time, a chance is a chance, and if we can pick him up on the cheap then there’s not much reason not to.

There is literally nothing that suggests that Scott Kazmir, as currently constituted, is a superior option to Tim Wakefield, Alfredo Aceves, Felix Doubront, Kyle Weiland, Andrew Miller, Brandon Duckworth, Kevin Milwood, stretched-out Scott Atchison, signing Bill Hall to pitch, foregoing the DH and letting Big Papi pitch or forfeiting every fifth start.

Not only can’t he get AAA batters out, he can’t not walk them and usually can’t even avoid hitting them. He’s not currently an acceptable major league player at any level and I don’t see how he could possibly get there by the time the season ends. This is not “low-risk, high-reward” or even “low-risk, low-reward,” it’s low-risk, absolutely no reward.

He provides no utility. He’s terrible. He’s done. Let him be done for the Angels.

he gets lit up in triple-A nearly every time out (though he did have a decent outing a couple weeks ago). Hes done.

At the end of the season, no one particularly cares if the PawSox win an International League championship, at worst, signing Kazmir can only negatively impact their season, not ours. League minimum won’t ruin our chances of picking up someone at the deadline if we need to.

This guy used to be a terror in the AL East and struck a ton of guys out. If we promote Miller, we’re going to need a new reclamation project anyway. If there is even the slightest of chances that he can become a serviceable pitcher again, why not for the Sox?

he’s utterly destroyed and isn’t going to rebound, but as long as he doesn’t come to the majors, as far as I’m concerned, him and Millwood can sit in Pawtucket and commiserate about the good ol days.

It’s low-risk if he has a medical chance of rehab to pitch this year. Otherwise it’s taking away innings from someone with an actual chance of development.

Starter? Hell no. IF the Angels didnt want him, the Sox dont want him either.

He sucks

We have Kevin Millwood, Andrew Miller, Felix Doubront, other guys.

I would much prefer that the Yankees took a shot on Kazmir.

And I don’t just mean Pedro returning to the team on a regular basis, I mean
Pedro charging out of the stands with a blue button-down on to pitch.

Come to think of it, I’d rather see that than Lackey.

Even though he has caused the Sox plenty of headaches, he is too wild, he is more in the Dontrelle Willis school of pitching.

  The team that may take a gamble on him are the MFYs, because they need starting pitching very, very badly.

Kazmir probably needs to go to AAA ball, or find a good pitching coach like Dave Wallace or Dave Righetti to smooth out his mechanics..

The Angels have problems, but one of them isn’t starting pitching, Kazmir is expendable.

He could take the Jose Contreas route, and pitch as a reliever, but Kazmir was always about his potential if he could stop hitting batters, and stop being so wild. Like Willis, he couldn’t find the strike zone..