So after a night stewing over the latest, most recent O's disaster, I feel no better. Hard to feel better about this mess with the news I just read on Pete Schmuck's blog http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/schmuck/2010/04/is_gonzalez_hurt.html about Michael Gonzalez now being hurt. Just another dagger.
And I honestly don't care about this because it is such a loss to the team (which theoretically it is when you lose your closer), but because it's just another disastrous free-agent signing that really made no sense to begin with. Gonzo was 10-17 in save situations last year, which is terrible (I believe Jim Johnson was 10-16, I'd have to look that up, and by all accounts was not cut out for the closer role), and yet the O's go and give THIS guy $12 million and the keys to the 9th inning. Was he hurt when he was signed? Seems like something was going on, since as Schmuck pointed out on numerous occasions he seemed to be pitching hurt from day one of spring training.
It's just the continual stories like this that have dogged Baltimore for so many years now. For every small success through free agency or via a trade, you have massive failures in the draft, in free agency and even when signing our own to extensions (which I'm worried might happen with Brian Roberts).
