Optioned RHP Darren O'Day to Salt Lake (Triple-A); purchased the contract of RHP Shane Loux from Salt Lake. [8/4] If Loux wasn't on your radar, you needn't worry about recalibrating your scope —before this season, the man had pitched one year in the last three in organized baseball (in the Omaha Royals' pen in 2006), and had struggled to catch on in indie leagues, settling for some beer league action before drawing the attention of a friend of an Angels scout who got him a workout, which got him into camp this spring. Never the sort to overpower people when he was coming up in the Tigers organization at the dawn of the Aughties, he's been doing good stuff with the Buzz, making 22 starts, giving up 4.5 runs per nine, making 13 quality starts, generating 1.8 ground-ball outs to every caught fly ball, and striking out about five batters per nine. It's cool to see his comeback go the full distance, and he's actually a good fit for this staff, in that none of the other five relievers are really cut out for really long relief outings to sponge up innings after some starter's random disasterpiece, and if (for example) Jon Garland's neck stiffened up again before gametime, Loux's the guy who could handle getting pressed into action in the interim. There's no real glory to being the last man in a pen in these sorts of scenarios, but I suspect actually getting back to The Show is glory enough. --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 122.116.233.75