11/18/13

FLASH - LaTroy Hawkins Signs with Rockies

LaTroy Hawkins


According to USA TODAY's Bob Nightengale RP LaTroy Hawkins has agreed to a one-year deal worth $2.25 million dollars to play for the Colorado Rockies. The deal also includes a 1yr option for 2015 at $2.25 million dollars or a $250,000 buyout.

According to Nightengale, the Rockies will plan on using Hawkins as their primary closer which will move Rex Brothers to 8th inning setup duties.

(Good for Hawkins...the Rockies offered him something the Mets could not and that's the closing job. The second year certainly doesn't hurt either and again I don't believe the mets could have willingly offered this.)



5 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Sorry Mack,

I somehow messed up the Tim Hudson Post when attempting to post the Hawkins story.....

Still learning how to use this new Blogger App on my phone.

Herb G said...

Congrats to LaTroy. Must be tough deciding to pitch in Colorado, but the opportunity to be the closer makes it worth it, and he's getting about 500K more than I thought he'd get with a 2nd year option.

As far as the Mets, I'd be just fine with a pen of Parnell, Torres, Black, Edgin, Rice, Germen, and Familia. I'm thinking they'll sign Byrdak to a minor league deal. We have so many minor league candidates for the pen that we really shouldn't have to sign a free agent reliever.

Reese Kaplan said...

How would a 29 year old sidearmer with a career ERA under 3.00 strike you? Joe Smith is a FA and worth more per year being the right side of 30 rather than the wrong side of 40.

Bill Metsiac said...

The question is how he'd strike our GM! In the 3 years he's been here, I've seen him acquire (by FA signing, trade, or even RE-signing) ONE ML player coming off a successful season, and that player (Ramon Ramirez) turned out to be a dud.

With all his talk about improving the team, he still shops at MLB's Dollar Tree when he should at least be at Macy's.

Herb is right---the pen is fine as is. For what Smith would cost, we could get a ML hitter. Is Collin Cowgill still available?