Reds sign Kip Wells

A deal with Gomes is still apparently possible... But Wells? Really?

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I'm not saying you're a liar

I’m just saying I can’t believe you.

Also: 8 of the 19 pitchers on the 2002 Pirates have now been in the Reds Organization. And I bet you Joe Biemel will be eventually. And Duaner? Oh, he can suck it.

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by Cy Schourek on Feb 11, 2010 8:24 PM EST reply actions

You just knew that we

couldn’t make it through unscathed.

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by Pops Daniels on Feb 11, 2010 8:33 PM EST reply actions

Cue:

“Competition is a good thing”….bullshit

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 11, 2010 8:34 PM EST up reply actions

well i mean somebody's gotta pitch in Louisville

I don’t see it as a bad thing. Every organization keeps guys like this around. I mean as long as the Reds don’t seriously consider Wells and Lehr for a long term big league role.

If there are a few injuries at the big league level, and Chapman, Wood, and Maloney are pressed into MLB service, it is probably good to keep Lehr and Wells in AAA, rather than promote somebody from AA who isn’t ready. Or to put Lehr and Wells on the big league roster, if Wood and Chapman aren’t ready yet.

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by justin007000 on Feb 11, 2010 8:48 PM EST up reply actions

Nobody reads FanShots

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by 'tHan on Feb 11, 2010 8:41 PM EST reply actions

WHAT THE FUCK

by Brian B on Feb 11, 2010 9:38 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Wells are black holes that children fall into

before they’re rescued on television.

What did you expect? It's the internet. Some of us are full of crap.

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 11, 2010 9:55 PM EST reply actions

Christ in a Penguin suit...

The Reds should seriously consider a 4 man rotation.

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by Madville on Feb 12, 2010 9:41 AM EST up reply actions

It's gonna happen

Just wait and see

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 12, 2010 10:57 AM EST up reply actions

They only need a spot starter 5 times through May 17th.

Or less, if Bronson prefers to work on 4 days’ rest.

But with Owings out of options and Maloney with nothing more to prove at AAA, I can’t see Wells doing anything for the Reds but collecting spring training meal money, bruising our minor league catchers with errant pitches, and earning us about $50,000 cash when we jettison him the final week of March to a team with a lot of injuries.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 12, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions

or toilling in Louisville for the season

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by justin007000 on Feb 12, 2010 1:53 PM EST up reply actions

I actually think we'll see him as the 5th SP for all of April, and possibly the 1st 2 weeks in May, maybe the 17th even

He’ll be gone by May 17th, and some other choad will get the 5th SP nod

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 12, 2010 4:26 PM EST up reply actions

Word from Mark Shelton regarding

how Wells got signed

Kip Wells will be added to the mix for the fifth spot of the rotation battle. Wells agreed to a Minor League deal a couple of days ago.

“We told him at the end of last year that if nothing else happened for him elsewhere, we’d bring him back,” Jocketty said. “He did well for us at the end of the season.”

Wells, signed to a Minor League deal in July, became a fill-in starter for the Reds late in the season and was 2-1 with a 3.65 ERA in four September starts.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 13, 2010 5:23 PM EST reply actions

yeah

he will get a “chance”, but that is about it. He will get 1 start or will be the 2nd guy out of the shoot early in spring training, but he will have to seriously out pitch the competition to actually win a spot in the rotation. Like I mean Maloney, Owings, and Wood will have to probably put up an ERA north of 10, and he will have to keep an ERA under 1.

He will open in Louisville.

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by justin007000 on Feb 13, 2010 5:30 PM EST up reply actions

Like I said before, Kip Wells, 5th SP to begin the season

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 13, 2010 6:30 PM EST up reply actions

I agree

but I am less angry about this signing when Walt paints it as: you done good fer us, we’ll give ya a job if no one else will.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 13, 2010 7:31 PM EST up reply actions

It happens a lot

and for what Cincinnati needed last season, Wells filled the bill. I mean i guess they could have given starts to LeCure, but he really isn’t a special prospect. It would have been jumping the gun a bit to give Travis Wood some starts, plus he threw a lot of minor league innings. You have to remember by the time Wells entered the rotation Harang, Volquez, Cueto, were on the shelf, and Owings had pitched himself out of the rotation. That is 4/5th of the opening day rotation gone.

I am guessing he probably meant if nobody gives you a major league contract, or if no team gives you a better shot at earning a major league spot, there is a minor league contract with a spring training invitation waiting for you in Cincinnati.

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by justin007000 on Feb 13, 2010 7:47 PM EST up reply actions

Here's why they brought Wells back

if no team gives you a better shot at earning a major league spot

That really says to me that Kip Wells is the stop gap 5th SP out of ST, and they want to get an extended look at more long-term solutions to the BOR.

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 14, 2010 10:10 AM EST up reply actions

you and i took that differently

i am not saying the Reds will give him a greater chance at earning a major league spot. Wells spent last year in the organization, and he is probably comfortable with the Cincinnati and Louisville staff, so why move on. I mean he will make the same pitching in AAA Louisville that he will make in AAA Scranton or AAA Charlotte.

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by justin007000 on Feb 14, 2010 2:03 PM EST up reply actions

$ isn't the point. Getting a shot to be a BOR starter is the carrot for Wells.

The Reds have 4 guys locked into the rotation, which leaves the 5th spot wide open. Wells is a known commodity to the Reds, as is a guy like Lehr. Unknown commodities are Maloney and Owings. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Reds felt that Maloney was a better solution post May as a stop gap until Chapman’s ready, but I have this really bad feeling that Wells is the 5th SP to open up the season until probably mid-May, and then we won’t see Wells again for Cincinnati unless someone’s injured.

I don’t see Wells having as good of a shot to make a major league roster with his other options.

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 14, 2010 4:39 PM EST up reply actions

The thing is though

If we’re giving Kip Fucking Wells that chance, why not do the same thing for Jonny Gomes?

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by BK on Feb 13, 2010 7:55 PM EST up reply actions

Probably did

i’m guessing the Reds have offered Gomes a minor league contract, and Gomes is waiting to see if he can get a major league contract from another team.

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by justin007000 on Feb 13, 2010 8:00 PM EST up reply actions

Well, they did do the same thing for Jonny Gomes.

There’s an offer on the table. Or are you saying if Wells gets a minor league deal, Gomes should get a major league deal?

by the finest muffins on Feb 13, 2010 8:06 PM EST up reply actions

Minor league deal?

I can see Gomes and Nix tearing up AAA while the Reds slowly fade around mid-June.

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by Madville on Feb 14, 2010 9:55 AM EST up reply actions

Wells

is like about 80 percent (forgive me, but I didn’t do the math) of all pitchers in MLB who are a weekend outing away from either being a reclamation project or set adrift. Jocketty has a history of seeing how that worked in St. Lousy.

I think the notion is:
- check his pulse.
- can he find the ballpark from where he is?
— sign him before somebody else does.

And if he can go 4-2 with an ERA of something under 5.00, then he’s probably as good as it needs to get.

All in all, the four wins are what matters.

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by johnu1 on Feb 14, 2010 3:53 PM EST up reply actions