yeah i was about to say something about your last post until you clarified. our bullpen took a hit this year but i 'm getting a little more confidence in guys like harville and now qualls. dotel is obviously not great closer material but as a set-up man he's nasty and about as good in that role as you can get. ideally it'd be nice to have lidge as the closer with dotel setting him up but once we promoted dotel we couldn't put him back in the eighth without shaking his confidence even more. anyways i'd rather have beltran even if it does turn out to be a rental, this year has been fun(at least the last month or so)
I could see Dotel in pinstripes next year as a setup man. And no, i'm no talking about Astros pinstripes. Plus, he played in NY before. So he should be comfortable playing there again. But we need to find some bullpen help in the off season. After resigning Beltran, that should be priority #1. I often wonder if we could turn Redding into a great setup man. Then he could use all his arsenal in 1or 2 innings and not worry about pitching a whole game. If some of you remember, Lidge used to be a starting pitcher for us, but he was too injury prone.
Lidge has been awesome.. if we can find a really good guy to put before him.. like we had in the dotel wagner tandem. that would be even better..
I was cursing DD's name when Lidge walked Rolen and got behind on Edmonds! I thought he'd jinxed him!
Weren't you also the one that was calling for Drayton to blow up the team? I think it was something along the lines of, "Blow them up !!!!! DD" Sounds about right
I think we're fairly set as in the role of set up man next year with either Qualls or Harville stepping in nicely.
