Bill Bavasi

Well, we're on the brink of watching Carlos Silva become a very rich man at the hands of Bill Bavasi.  You'd think that if you were making $11-12 million bucks a year, you would be considered "good".  Is Carlos Silva good?  His ERA+ was 103.  All things being equal, he's average.  Huh.  So we're buying average?

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I have to wonder if Bill Bavasi feels like one of the kickball team captains on the playground, except his opponents have been able to choose all the athletic kids and he's left with the first-chair tuba player, the exchange student from the Ukraine who still doesn't quite understand the rules, and the Librarian's teacher's pet.

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That, if true, is unequivocally a complete and utter disaster.  I beg you Bill Bavasi, I implore you to reconsider.

Carlos Silva is a #5 starter on a good team.  The Mariners have pretty terrible pitching and he would would even be a back-end option for them - likely their #4.  His career stats feature a .299 BAA and 4.31 ERA, and he's just one year removed from a season where he went 11-15 with a 5.94 ERA, 1.54 WHIP and allowed opponents to hit .324 off of him.  If your minor league system can't find an arm to perform at least a little better than that, you're a sorry, sorry organization.

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