Report: Phils Close To Signing Chan Ho Park
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Thu, December 11, 2008 02:17 AM | Comments: 19
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UPDATE (12:55 a.m.): Though he admits the Phillies haven’t confirmed a deal, Josh Schlegel of MLB.com predicts a one-year pact for Park, and an audition for the rotation.
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Yahoo! Sports’ Tim Brown reports the Phillies are close to signing free agent pitcher Chan Ho Park.
Last season, Park went 4-4 with a 3.40 ERA in 95.1 innings for the Dodgers. He started five games for Los Angeles; Brown says the Phils may view Park as a starter.
Thoughts: This is the type of back-end starter the Phils can use going into Spring Training. Sure it’s not Derek Lowe (yet), but it’s a solid back-end piece that can compete for fifth starter against Kyle Kendrick, JA Happ, Carlos Carrasco and maybe even Jamie Moyer, say all four return to the Phillies. At the very least, it’s starting pitching depth, something I think is a priority for any team.
Posts: 0 Chris.I
This is good trout fishing, but when are we going to catch a shark?
Posted: 02:21 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Robbi P
They said Chan Ho Park, 35, increased his velocity last year from like 88 to 92. I mean, its not Derek Lowe but this seems to be the moves the Phillies make.
I find it funny the Mets are stockpiling bullpen arms up the whazoo and the Phillies are closing in on Chan Ho Park and trading Jamarillo.
I’m hoping the Phillies sign Lowe and Juan Rivera/Derosa/Delmon Young
If the Phillies get Delmon, it will be competition with Mayberry which is apparently why the Phillies got Paulino.
Posted: 02:24 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Ryk
This is not the kind of acquisition the Phils are going to need to counter the additions to the Mets’ bullpen. First K-Rod, now Putz. Yikes. I know, the Phils are still the defending champs, but The Muts are serious. They were embarrassed in 07 and 08, and they’re trying to play the role of Yankees this year. Scared? No. Concerned? Yup. They need Lowe. A groundball pitcher with the Phils’ infield is exactly what they need. Give the guy 10 years if it gets him in red pinstripes.
Posted: 02:34 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Am I concerned? No. Seriously, no reason to play a game with the Mets just cause they’re shoring up their bullpen.
Posted: 02:38 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
The mets bullpen went from being a disgrace to being mildly acceptable now, but the rest of the guys in there still suck, and putz got traded for a reason…hes what he used to be…
this is a good signing for the phillies. hell lose out for the 5th starter job to happ or carrasco in spring training, most likely, but the phillies will keep him as part of their bullpen..he could replace condrey as a long man or take rudy seanezs role…he can contribute, hell be on the team next year…good, cheap, value signing. vintage gillick…i mean, amaro
Posted: 02:41 AM on December 11, 2008
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Sorry Tim, It’s not just the fact that there loading up their BP…It’s simply the fact that there taking care of their priorities, and were not! Our Bullpen was fine…Our Catching was fine…Our top priority is SP, than LF, than maybe 2B replacement. Why the hell is Amaro worrying about things that don’t need to be fixed at the moment? He’s doing shyt half azz backwards
Posted: 02:44 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
I’m pretty confident he is worried about filling the holes, but he’s also playing it smart in not immediately signing Derek Lowe to a five-year, $80M contract. And while the Mets were fighting nobody to fill their biggest holes, the Phils are staring down the Yankees, Red Sox and other teams to fill theirs. We said the same things last season, and look what happened! Be confident!
Posted: 02:49 AM on December 11, 2008
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I’m trying to man. Guess I’ll just go to sleep, and check back in tomorrow…Hopefully theres is Lowe, and a Ibanez/Young under the tree when I wake up-LoL
Posted: 02:52 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Justin
Not a fan of Chan Ho Park sorry, I mean he had his ups and downs with the dodgers last season in the bullpen but he’s not a guy I would want for a replacement to Moyer or a backup to Moyer.
Posted: 02:55 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
what is this “loading up their bullpen”..? k-rod? check, good. putz? used to be very good, now, ok good move. ENTIRE REST OF THE METS BULLPEN? total, compelte, utter, GARBAGE. congratulations, the mets now have two quality arms in the bullpen, whereas they ended the season with none…i think all those guys they had in there last year suck..badly….dont get all worried about hte mets..they still need two more good pitchers back there to have a good pen, AND they sitll have like two rotation spots to fill…with? theyre talking about garland and marquis…no word of them moving on lowe or any of the bigger guys left…
Posted: 03:24 AM on December 11, 2008
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chan ho park WILL NOT BE USED AS A STARTER unless he magically finds himself again…hes a good bullpen guy to add to that mix there to replace rudy seanez….they still need another bullpen arm better than park to bolster that bullpen staff though…
maybe now that it seems that the yankees will score burnett, the phillies can reset their bids and grab lowe for three years..
Posted: 03:25 AM on December 11, 2008
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they can be fixed whenever…hes getting the easier things out of the way…theyve got great catching depth now even without coste if hes moved..there are tons of teams looking for catching, especially desperate teams who will overpay…like the red sox…who do they have that we like for starting? bullpen? right…the red sox have tons of pitching…..just throwing it out there…
remember there will be some kind of announcement about the peavy deal tomorrow, so thats hanging out there..and the yankees seem to have backed off of lowe and moved to lock down burnett…now the braves may jump in after lowe…theyre pretty desperate too…
Posted: 03:30 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 metsblow4show
I like Chan Ho Park as a long relief man but I don’t want to see him as a 5th starter. His last 4 or 5 years as a starter were “Eaton-like”. He did pitch well out of the pen last year for the Dodgers though and if we use him the same way, I think he can help.
Posted: 03:31 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 J-Man
Not a bad signing,i don’t see him being a starter unless Moyers doesn’t come back or Happ ends up getting traded…I can see him beinging a 6th and 7th inning guy and pitching long relief.
Posted: 03:40 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Jim Jones
Kind of reminds me of the Chad Durbin signing last year.
Posted: 03:49 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Grrrumpy Miner
Addition by subtraction….Mets add K-Rod (No Kings ransom to get him so get that Yankee talk outta here) and Joseph Jason Putz via a trade.Now with those 2 in the fold and saying goodbye to Aaron Heilman,Joe Smith,and Billy Wagner (Tommy John Surgery) are gone from this poison pen.Now the Mets add a QUALITY closer,and a potentially good 8th inning man.Mets need to shore up a 7th inning guy who can help “bridge the gap” to K-Rod.You say the Mets are doing it “the Yankee way”? You better think again.Mets have improved their weakness which is a beautiful thing.Am I saying the Mets are a Complete team……NOT YET.Now the Mets need a LF,a 4th Outfielder to replace Chavez,and a halfway decent starter.After the last 3 years,you KNOW guys like Wright and Reyes are salivating and waiting for Spring Training.PS It was GREAT seeing K-Rod at CitiField looking over things and choosing his locker.
Posted: 04:34 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 Grrrumpy Miner
PS…..we have no Kool Aid here
Posted: 04:35 AM on December 11, 2008
Posts: 0 mike mike
I admit that putz is a player that I haven’t seen. but the reports are his era went up last year. And teams were worry he is starting to lose velocity and was getting hit more. but that is only a report. A lot of teams wanted him.
Posted: 08:42 AM on December 11, 2008
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After a stunning 12-player, three-team, winter meetings mega-deal Wednesday night, the Mets have transformed their bullpen and transformed themselves.
True facts: K-Rod averaged 10.14 strikeouts per nine innings this season. Putz, even in a down year, averaged 10.88 whiffs per nine innings. And that was in the American League, where the lineups run nine deep.
Only two National League teams had a closer-setup combo that each racked up that high a punchout rate in 2008 — the Cubs (Kerry Wood/Carlos Marmol) and Dodgers (Takashi Saito/Jonathan Broxton/Hong-Chih Kuo). Not coincidentally, those staffs ranked third and first, respectively, in the league in bullpen ERA.
Posted: 09:56 AM on December 11, 2008