Comments on: Francisco Cordero’s Arrival Affects Casey Janssen http://jaysjournal.com/2012/01/28/francisco-cordero-affects-casey-janssen/ A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: gnor http://jaysjournal.com/2012/01/28/francisco-cordero-affects-casey-janssen/comment-page-1/#comment-951020 gnor Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:09:01 +0000 http://jaysjournal.com/?p=10476#comment-951020 The question with Janssen has always been his health. He missed all of 2008, but if you look at 2007, he appeared in 70 games and threw 72.2 innings, which for any reliever is gross overuse. Since then, however, he has put together three good years out of 4; his worst being 2009, when he was required to make 5 starts. If you compare him to Scott Downs, another converted starter, both guys really started to put up good numbers once they found their niche as late inning guys. Downs' numbers are only a bit better than Janssen's, and he signed a 3 year deal with LA for $15 million. If they could get Janssen for 3 years at $10-12 million, it would be money well spent. As you wrote, he's better than Cordero, he thrives in high leverage situations, and he's getting better. They signed Joey Bats on a much smaller body of work, and it's not as if it would cripple them if it didn't work out. The question with Janssen has always been his health. He missed all of 2008, but if you look at 2007, he appeared in 70 games and threw 72.2 innings, which for any reliever is gross overuse.

Since then, however, he has put together three good years out of 4; his worst being 2009, when he was required to make 5 starts. If you compare him to Scott Downs, another converted starter, both guys really started to put up good numbers once they found their niche as late inning guys. Downs’ numbers are only a bit better than Janssen’s, and he signed a 3 year deal with LA for $15 million. If they could get Janssen for 3 years at $10-12 million, it would be money well spent.

As you wrote, he’s better than Cordero, he thrives in high leverage situations, and he’s getting better. They signed Joey Bats on a much smaller body of work, and it’s not as if it would cripple them if it didn’t work out.

]]> By: gnor http://jaysjournal.com/2012/01/28/francisco-cordero-affects-casey-janssen/comment-page-1/#comment-5573 gnor Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:09:01 +0000 http://jaysjournal.com/?p=10476#comment-5573 The question with Janssen has always been his health. He missed all of 2008, but if you look at 2007, he appeared in 70 games and threw 72.2 innings, which for any reliever is gross overuse. Since then, however, he has put together three good years out of 4; his worst being 2009, when he was required to make 5 starts. If you compare him to Scott Downs, another converted starter, both guys really started to put up good numbers once they found their niche as late inning guys. Downs' numbers are only a bit better than Janssen's, and he signed a 3 year deal with LA for $15 million. If they could get Janssen for 3 years at $10-12 million, it would be money well spent. As you wrote, he's better than Cordero, he thrives in high leverage situations, and he's getting better. They signed Joey Bats on a much smaller body of work, and it's not as if it would cripple them if it didn't work out. The question with Janssen has always been his health. He missed all of 2008, but if you look at 2007, he appeared in 70 games and threw 72.2 innings, which for any reliever is gross overuse.

Since then, however, he has put together three good years out of 4; his worst being 2009, when he was required to make 5 starts. If you compare him to Scott Downs, another converted starter, both guys really started to put up good numbers once they found their niche as late inning guys. Downs’ numbers are only a bit better than Janssen’s, and he signed a 3 year deal with LA for $15 million. If they could get Janssen for 3 years at $10-12 million, it would be money well spent.

As you wrote, he’s better than Cordero, he thrives in high leverage situations, and he’s getting better. They signed Joey Bats on a much smaller body of work, and it’s not as if it would cripple them if it didn’t work out.

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