I remember everyone on here started wondering why the hell we wouldn't just give him back around June and maybe even before. And we never did, I don't think. no, we kept him that whole [expletive] year even though he was terrible, in his mid 20s and didn't even have very good stuff. rondon was the same age, but at least he can throw hard and had a good prospect pedigree, plus he missed most of 2011 and 2012 due to injury. keeping patton around for pretty much all of 2009 was just baffling.