The Mariners make the 3rd worst possible move.....

Its 90% official....

Carlos Silva(former minnesota twins) is gonna sign for 4 years 44 million with the Mariners

1st. Its not that I hate Silva....or think he is trash.....he is just average.

Why is this one of the worst possible moves....

1) The rotation isnt any better than it would be with other pitchers available (a little in some instances but not 11 million worth)...The rotation go "better" because of Ho-ram and Weaver being ejected from it....not because of addition of talent.
2) Silva isnt much better than other options we already had for league minimum.
Baek, Morrow, Rowland-Smith, Rhorbaugh, Sean White, Feierabend, RA dickey......all of these options dont cost much....ALSO....The Mariners arent locked in for 4 years
3) Its a 4 year contract.....conisdering Silva doesnt dramatically improve the Mariners...that is a large committment that at best ads a win or two at most.
4) Silva is a monkey against lefties and the MAriners already have 2/5 of the staff that isnt "good/great" against lefties.....left handed platoon splits will be optimal against the Mariners...lets hope all the AL lefties goto the NL
5) Safeco doesnt benefit Silva much.....Left field short porch actually hurts him, where even with guys like Jarrod Washburn who we signed to 4 year 40+...safeco benefits his style of pitching...
Safeco doesnt hurt Silva....but Safeco + FA pithcer who safeco would "improve" = cheaper solution
6) Now 3/5 of the Rotation takes up 30+% of the total payroll....and that doesnt include King Felix, who is gonna enter his arbitration years soon.......30+% for guys not having "impact"...thats alot of money that should be spent wiser (people flipping out about Richie sexson....at least the 1st 2 years he produced for his money.....but for his mariner carreer...its basically similar to the Mariners Trio)
7) The 3rd and 4th year of the contract is when its gonna hurt the most....Either we will be blowing the team up, or wont have $$$ to address other needs (which will probably still be pitching, and we'll be in the same position....not utilizing the minors correctly)
8) Pretty much secures we lose $50,000 for RA Dickey ....I would have rather seen him get a slot...I am not a huge fan or anything....but IF...he can find the plate....a knuckler is like having a leftey in the line-up to disrupt the other team in a 3 game series)

The Good....
1) Most likely....Adam Jones wont get traded for Bedard.....Of course if Jones is a bust....well....we wont be talking about silva.....I doubt Jones will be a bust....in a year or two we will be say "All-Star Adam Jones"

2) We didnt trade tons of Talent for some 3rd rate pitcher (Such as the Ho-Ram / Soriano trade last year)

3) Ummmm.....Silva isnt Weaver or Ho-Ram?

When the "good" points are "we didnt get this other guy"...thats a sign of an average signing or trade.

If he can reproduce 2005 and 2007 ....he will be fine.....its just there were better options for the future.

But all that being said....

Carlos Silva....Welcome....Once ya put on the Mariners uniform...it means I will be a lifelong fan.
And Hopefully se can move Richie for better 1B defence, which should help ya out.

P.S. More pitches you can throw for groundballs to the 3B side will equall more outs, and more wins

Adrian Beltre and Yuniesky Betancourt = Great Wall of Chine + Industrial StregnthVaccuum

If Yuni "fixes" his throws to 1st base ....its the best 3B/SS combo in the AL IMHO

Go Mariners