Papelbon Back to Closer Role

Jocephus · Post by **Jocephus** » March 22 07, 12:19 pm

manny for narveson

mikechamp · Post by **mikechamp** » March 22 07, 12:25 pm

skmsw:

Well, I guess this kind of settles the debate we were having the other day about who's the better starting pitcher between Wainwright and Papelbon.

MDCardsFan · Post by **MDCardsFan** » March 22 07, 12:25 pm

RC21 wrote:
Swatcat27 wrote:Maybe clement, lester ??
Clement is out until July, I believe.

Ya know, the best.... oh never mind

JL21 · Post by **JL21** » March 22 07, 12:26 pm

MDCardsFan wrote:
RC21 wrote:
Swatcat27 wrote:Maybe clement, lester ??
Clement is out until July, I believe.

Ya know, the best.... oh never mind

I should just put 'MDCardsFan was right about Matt Clement 27 months ago and I was wrong' in my signature.

MDCardsFan · Post by **MDCardsFan** » March 22 07, 12:29 pm

RC21 wrote:
MDCardsFan wrote:
RC21 wrote:
Swatcat27 wrote:Maybe clement, lester ??
Clement is out until July, I believe.

Ya know, the best.... oh never mind

I should just put 'MDCardsFan was right about Matt Clement 27 months ago and I was wrong' in my signature.

Yeah, but I did think Larry Bigbe would help us out last year and we all know how that turned out.

skmsw · Post by **skmsw** » March 22 07, 12:33 pm

mikechamp wrote:skmsw:

Well, I guess this kind of settles the debate we were having the other day about who's the better starting pitcher between Wainwright and Papelbon.

(chuckle) yep . . . for now.

cardfaninfla · Post by **cardfaninfla** » March 22 07, 12:46 pm

I could have sworn that I heard them say MAY move back to the closer role.

Post by **Bo Hart** » March 22 07, 12:47 pm

cardfaninfla wrote:I could have sworn that I heard them say MAY move back to the closer role.

They were talking about it earlier in the game. They did a close up of him, and one of their on-field reporters said that it would be announced after the game.

Could be wrong, though.

Edit: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring200 ... id=2808345

Swatcat27 · Post by **Swatcat27** » March 22 07, 1:11 pm

I guess, Lester is getting closer to the rotation, so it makes more sense to move Papelbon to the closer's slot & fix their biggest problem. I think he has more value in the closer's role than as a starter for the BoSox.

Hungary Jack · Post by **Hungary Jack** » March 22 07, 1:32 pm

Cronos69 wrote:I'm not surprised. The closer choices weren't all that attractive beyond he and maybe Donnelly or Timlin(who just went down with injury).

Who's going to be in the #5 spot in the rotation in his place, I wonder?

Tavarez?

Kyle Snyder?

Chris Narveson.

You heard it here first.