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Finally Zach Duke is no longer a pirate! The Pirates also designate Delwyn Young, and Andy Laroche.
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Pirates designate Zach Duke, Young, Laroche for assignment
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George_Calfas
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ostrander111
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The pirates should be designated for assignment...to a different league
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55_marlins_sp said:
I am SOOOOO excited!!! The Pirates offense is horrible and there are several games where the defense has played so horribly and that caused his ERA to go up and lots of his losses have been like 2-1 or 3-2, etc. So all in all I am very excited
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As a Cubs fan, I'd gladly welcome both Laroche and Duke on the Northside.
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Duke wasn't as bad as his ERA and W/L totals were this year due to the horrible defense but Duke' stuff continues to decline to almost comical porportions. His HR rate was very high, abnormally high to where you think its just a fluke but when you see his location and his "stuff" those HR's he gave up were bombs.
I am indifferent to him being let go as he is a marginal player that will do better on a team with terrific defense (not just good) but has maddening mediocre stuff that isn't hard to replace.
Laroche has a bad back, hasn't done well in winter league play and may be out of baseball this or next season. His fielding declined and couldn't hit off the bench. If it was due to his back and he gets healthy we will see but he hasn't done much of anything for 2.5 years.
Young was just a terrible infielder but a good bat off the bench, he will find a gig somewhere.
I am indifferent to him being let go as he is a marginal player that will do better on a team with terrific defense (not just good) but has maddening mediocre stuff that isn't hard to replace.
Laroche has a bad back, hasn't done well in winter league play and may be out of baseball this or next season. His fielding declined and couldn't hit off the bench. If it was due to his back and he gets healthy we will see but he hasn't done much of anything for 2.5 years.
Young was just a terrible infielder but a good bat off the bench, he will find a gig somewhere.
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mstng99tim
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Even though the PTBNL won't be very good, at least they got something for him, as he would've been a free agent next week anyways.
Reports are that Arizona is trying to negotiated a contract and won't be offering him arbitration. Seems like they just wanted to get exclusive rights to negotiate with him before someone else stepped in.
If they don't come to a deal they basically will have given away a player for nothing.
I can't imagine the Pirates will get much more than organizational filler if that's the case.
If they don't come to a deal they basically will have given away a player for nothing.
I can't imagine the Pirates will get much more than organizational filler if that's the case.
