Levine: Cubs sign Jason Motte

[Transmogrified Tiger]

@MLBBruceLevine Source-Breaking news -Chicago Cubs sign pitcher Jason Motte to 1 year deal pending physical

[Andy]

That seems...odd.

[Bruno7481]

He has a great foundation to raise awareness for "striking out cancer." I bought the Cubs version of the shirt last year.

 

Lots of injuries. Throws hard.

 

That's about all I got.

[Guest]

Hopefully a minor league deal?

[Elrhino]

He used to throw a nasty cutter. Gotta hope he regains some of his velocity from TJS over time. Edited December 15, 2014 by Elrhino

[Bull]

Doesn't seem like a priority. Could be a good bounce back candidate in second season after tjs. Hopefully he's cheap.

[sneakypower]

this year's Manny Corpas, Eduardo Sanchez, Hong-Chih Kuo

[RammyFanny]

He used to throw a nasty cutter. Gotta hope he regains some of his velocity from TJS over time.

Read he was still sitting 95+ last year.

[Bruno7481]

Passan says 4.5 million.

[Smack]

For $4.5M?

[Guest]

He used to throw a nasty cutter. Gotta hope he regains some of his velocity from TJS over time.

Read he was still sitting 95+ last year.

 

That's not all that accurate: http://www.fangraphs.com/fgraphs/5861_P_FA_20140927.png

 

Basically, if Motte's velocity bounces back to pre-TJS levels, he's a decent bet to be a pretty good reliever. If it doesn't, need to hope that Bosio can make his cutter useful enough to keep hitters off balance.

 

EDIT: 4.5 million? Cripes, why?

[OleMissCub]

Ugh

[Bruno7481]

With incentives for games finished as well.

[Sammy Sofa]

http://media.giphy.com/media/M31G94ayUWQpO/giphy.gif

[Smack]

Maybe he's spending the off-season learning to throw lefty?

[mul21]

He used to throw a nasty cutter. Gotta hope he regains some of his velocity from TJS over time.

Read he was still sitting 95+ last year.

 

That's not all that accurate: http://www.fangraphs.com/fgraphs/5861_P_FA_20140927.png

 

Basically, if Motte's velocity bounces back to pre-TJS levels, he's a decent bet to be a pretty good reliever. If it doesn't, need to hope that Bosio can make his cutter useful enough to keep hitters off balance.

 

EDIT: 4.5 million? Cripes, why?

 

Beat me to it. He was really ineffective last year with the velocity down. Maybe he's been throwing and it's back, but that much surprises me unless there's something about this we don't know yet.

[gscool89]

It's only 1 year so I don't care about the money. This is a low risk, high reward move, hard to complain about it.

[UMFan83]

Ok just because PTR opened the purse strings doesn't mean you need to spend recklessly

[Rod Becks Ghost]

I love the move. On a one year deal, there's no risk, so why the hell not? Proven power arm with closing experience.

[Guest]

The "why not?" here is the very real chance that Motte is something like our 8th best right handed reliever. This isn't 2012 any more, there's an opportunity cost to giving someone a bullpen spot.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Honestly, though, I don't mind. If they're right, they're right. If they're wrong, it'll show. But I think our pen, even the right-handed side, is a bit softer than we think.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

is he lester's bff or something

[TruffleShuffle]

lol, isn't motte the one that dated OMC's ex?

[Cubbie Swagger]

I'm not incredibly thrilled about this but I'm kind of just blindly trusting our front office at this point. I like virtually everything else they've done.

 

Let's hope he returns to his 2010-2012 form. That would be pretty badass.

 

I think at this point we just aren't super concerned about a few million bucks.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

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