I assume its because they think they need an extra pen arm, which I would agree with.

so does this mean Figgy is with the team forever? or does he get a spot start and then run out of town again? not sure i understand this move. my assumption would have been Redding getting the call-up.

One bad start, and he suddenly can’t pitch. So yeah, let’s bring up Figueroa, who’s out of options, so we can later designate him for Redding. Un-fucking-real.

they plan on putting Delgado on the DL, playing with one less position player and one more reliever. Figgy is the long man and Redding is the starter. But yeah, I don’t like it.

I keep writing out posts and realizing I’m just beating a dead horse. I’ll just sum it up and say the decisions made this off-season, even sans the Perez contract, make my head hurt.

This team has an embarrassing lack of decent right handed relief options in the high minors — Lindstrom/Owens/Bell trades be damned!

Given the back to back extra inning games and Niese’s uneven performance, I can understand bringing up Figueroa as bullpen depth for the next four games. Things can truly get stupid when Perez comes back if the team continues to employ Livan Hernandez at the expense of another pitcher who actually deserves to be in the major leagues.

All we can do is hope the team is managed better when the next Wright/Reyes come along in 2020.

James Loney just hit a ridiculous 3 run CBP homer. It was in on his hands and he was dropping his head heading to first and it ended up in the first row in right.

From here on in, I don’t care about any mistakes our star players make at all (unless it’s so inordinate that it seriously begins to compromise their value, which it isn’t close to doing. I’m done with “Reyes should run harder” and “David Wright should hit nd not make errors in this or that situation”. I’m just happy I have Reyes and Wright in the knowledge that they will win many more games than they’ll lose. I’m grateful for our best players knowing that in this game our best players will fail more than they’ll succeed. When they fail, I’m just happy that they are the guys I wanted in that spot anyway. I’m just going to hope that Minaya and Jerry get replaced by people who know what they’re doing so that our team gets other guys who are half as good as these guys and gets a chance to win.

Makes up for today’s loss

I like Niese’s chances to help us this year, but remember he’s only 22, he’s only had a dozen starts at AAA, and, until his last start before coming up this year, he was struggling. I don’t think he was sent down because he had an underwhelming start today – instead, I think they sent him down so they could bring up Figgy to reinforce the ‘pen for a few days and then they’ll bring up Redding to take the next start in the 5th slot in the rotation. What I hope they are thinking is that Redding will be solid while Niese takes his game up another notch at AAA and is truly ready when the next flat tire hits the rotation.

how is 15 earned runs through 16 innings not struggling?

And I’m not saying there isn’t a case for keeping him. I’m just saying there’s a case for sending him down for more seasoning – if you like a guy to be on a roll before he comes up, if you want to be relatively certain that he’s accomplished most of what there is to accomplish at AAA so that there would be no point in having him ride the Buffalo-Queens shuttle back and forth all year, then you let him go down, hone his command, win a few games, and bring him back with a little more confidence.

mmm, that steak looks gooooood.