I'm convinced that spending money on a relief pitcher is a fools errand. The top 15 FA contracts given out last year (totalling nearly $90 for 2013) produced 4.1 Fangraphs WAR. And 3.3 of that was Koji Uehara. Seriously, the market for relief pitchers is just littered with high paid guys producing negative value:
Pitcher
Years
Contract
2013 WAR
Rafael Soriano
2
$28.00
0.5
Mariano Rivera
1
$10.00
1.5
Brandon League
3
$22.50
-1
Jonathan Broxton
3
$21.00
-0.4
Brett Myers
1
$7.00
-0.7
Jeremy Affeldt
3
$18.00
-0.5
Mike Adams
2
$12.00
-0.4
Kyuji Fujikawa
2
$9.20
0.2
Koji Uehara
1
$4.25
3.3
Joakim Soria
2
$8.00
0.2
Sean Burnett
2
$8.00
-0.1
Ryan Madson
1
$3.50
0
Octavio Dotel
1
$3.50
0
Jason Grilli
2
$6.75
1.5
Vicente Padilla
1
$3.25
0
1 of those contracts seems like a good deal to me. Okay, two (Grilli). The rest were busts or Mariano Rivera.
Stay away. Stay far far away.
- Ben.
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