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Steve "The Human Rain Delay" Traschel could have slowed down major league baseball for the last time. The Baltimore Orioles have DFA’d him, following what could be described as a poor start to the season.
For the year, Trax is 2-5 with a ERA of 8.39, spread over 10 games. Trax got rocked hard and knocked out early frequently, including 9 earned runs in less than two innings against the Rays, and a six run, three inning game against the Angels.
In six years with the Mets, Trax went 66-59, with a 4.09 ERA. Trax often benefited from a large amount of run support, and is best known for his slow delivery. That being said, he ate innings, going over 200 twice in his six years with the team.
New fifth starter anyone?
Sphere: Related ContentChan Ho Park threw three scoreless innings for the Dodgers, which is give or take about three more scoreless innings than he threw for the Mets. Park is a non roster invitee to the Dodgers, but so far has gone seven scoreless innings while allowing just two hits.
I’m just going to assume, for now, that Chan Ho Park has been replaced with his twin brother. Or a robot, sent from the future to kill John Connor and Matt Cerrone.
Before you get too freaked out, in the same game, Trax gave up three earned runs in four innings. No word on how many hours those four innings took.
Shawn Estes, now with the Padres, gave up three hits and four runs, only one of which was earned, in his most recent attempt to not be retired. Estes participated just once over the last two seasons, a loss where he gave up three runs in six innings, back in 2006.
I think I’ve actually run out of jokes about Estes and throwing four feet behind someone. I think that means its time for him to retire, do something stupid, or just stop appearing in these.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Sporting News takes a look at Steve ‘the Human Rain Delay ” Trachsel who, as the token old man of the Baltimore rotation, has taken on the role of teacher to the young starters that will be working along side him. Trax is the only vet over there, and despite a minor league contract is pretty much assured a spot in the rotation.
If Trax is teaching these kids about pitching routines, warmups, and the such the fans of Baltimore are pretty much now guaranteed every home game to be four hours long. Its good for Trax, since at least he gets to pitch in the bigs. And in theory its good for Baltimore. Not so much the people who have to sit through the night games and games where its rainy or cold.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Human Rain Delay, Steve Trachel, has signed a minor league contract with Baltimore. He played for both the O’s and Cubs last season, struggling off and on.
The man of a thousand spellings, Doug Mientkiewicz, has signed a minor league contract with the Pirates. He could make $750,000 if he makes the 40 man roster, assuming someone in the Pittsburgh front office can spell his name for his checks. He was a Met for a season, in which he did nothing you remember.
Sphere: Related ContentRockies Close To Signing Two Veteran Pitchers
Posted by Gary GrundNovember 29, 2007 at 2:15 pm
29 Nov
Tracy Ringolsby of the Rocky Mountain News reports that the Rockies are close to re-signing veteran LHP Mark Redman and are trying to finalize a deal for veteran RHP Steve Trachsel.
Redman, 33, signed on with the Rockies last season in August after starting the season with Atlanta and spending time in both the Rangers and Blue Jays minor league systems. In 5 games (3 starts), Redman went 2-0 with a 3.19 ERA for the Rockies in September.
Trachsel, 37, signed with the Orioles after former Mets teammate Kris Benson went down with rotator cuff surgery. He was traded to the Cubs on August 31st for two minor leaguers. Trachsel went 6-8 with a 4.48 ERA for the Orioles, however did not fare well with the Cubs as he went 1-3 with an 8.31 ERA in just 4 starts for Chicago. In 9 starts at Coors Field, Trachsel is 4-1 lifetime with a 6.44 ERA.
Sphere: Related ContentAs our pitching questions continue throughout the spring, what better time than a slow weekend to take a look at how some of our former pitching Mets are doing so far. All stats are courtesy of mlb.com.
In Baltimore, Chad Bradford is struggling. In his appearance Friday vs the Twins, he hit three batters and gave up a homerun, and a total of 7 earned runs. The loss for the day however, was credited to former Met Steve Traschel, who has a 8.18 ERA for spring. Kris Benson as mentioned earlier in the week, is mostly out for the season.
Over with the Royals, Brian Bannister has been able to start strong, but then struggles late. In his last appearance he went two scoreless innings and still gave up 6 earned runs for the day.
Darren Oliver on the other hand, is doing well in Anaheim (or Los Angelos of Anaheim I guess), throwing 2 scoreless innings earlier today, walking one and striking out one.
I know there's been a lot of talk lately about some of the pitching decisions made so far, but with the exception of Oliver for the most part would we really be better off had we held on to Bannister or Bradford? So far Omar's move that brought in John Maine and move out Kris Benson seems to have been incredible smart. And while some of the more recent pitching aquisitions, such as Chan Ho Park, have not yet proved similiar results it looks like we'd be in the same boat we are now if we'd held on to some of the players we lost this offseason.
Sphere: Related ContentEli Greenspan on MLB Rumors reports that according to Sports Radio 610 in Houston, the Astros are closing in on a one year deal with free agent pitcher Steve Trachsel.
ESPN reports that Steve Trachsel is nursing a bruised right thigh after being hit by a ball off the bat of Preston Wilson on Saturday night.
The Mets could turn to Darren Oliver in a game 7, who pitched magnificently in relief to eat up innings after Trachsel was touched up early.
Sphere: Related ContentSeveral of Mike Piazza's ex-teammates on the Mets were excited about his return to Shea, here are some comments from today's New York Post…
Trachsel will pitch carefully to the greatest Mets hitter of
all-time when he steps to the plate tonight, likely to a raucous
ovation from a thankful fan base.
“It's still Mike Piazza,” Trachsel said. “He's still a power threat. He drives in runs and gets a lot of clutch hits.
“All the things you think of Mike Piazza, he's still capable of doing.”
Former teammates still hold the 37-year-old future Hall of Famer in high esteem.
“He did a lot of beautiful things here,” Jose Reyes said.
“Hopefully he gets a nice ovation when he comes back in,”
manager Willie Randolph said. “He's meant a lot to this organization
and the city. And he's having a nice year.”
Willie had more nice things to say about Mike in The New York Daily News.
“He has a champion's heart and know-how,” Randolph said. “When a guy
has been a great player, he has a way of challenging himself to get as
much out as possible. I never thought he was done.”
David Wright expects a huge ovation for Mike.
“There aren't too many (former) Mets who have come back and been
cheered,” David Wright said. “They should be, especially if they did
great things. Mike is one of those and deservedly so. He's done
tremendous things for this organization and for this city. I think fans
will show their appreciation for what he's done.”
Mike's numbers, .297 with 16 home runs and 49 RBI, are good enough to keep him in the upper echelon of catchers in baseball, but as Tom Glavine points out, Mike will always be compared to himself in his prime, which few players at any position can keep up forever.
“His biggest obstacle is that he is compared to himself,” Glavine said.
“He is compared to Mike Piazza in his prime. He's not that player. None
of us are. Compare any of us to what we were in our prime when we are
past it and we're not the same.
Since the Mets were shut out in consecutive
Trachsel starts in mid-May, they have scored 92 runs in his 13 outings
- an average of 7.1 runs. Trachsel has won eight of nine decisions
despite a 5.60 ERA during the stretch.
Eddie Coleman spoke to Chris Russo with his Mets report on WFAN…
Coleman started off announcing that Duaner Sanchez was undergoing surgery as we speak, ending his season.
Coleman heard that Duaner and his cousin went to get something to eat at 1AM, in hindsight he wished he would have taken room service instead.
Exiting 62nd street, the accident occurred. He was not wearing his seatbelt, put his arm up to brace himself from the partition.
The injury is a severe seperation with torn ligaments.
Nady was upset about leaving, essentially a south florida cab driver sends him from a playoff bound team to the celler dwelling Pirates. The Mets should be better defensively in right field.
Roberto Hernandez said he's fully rested in a good place right now, they scaled back on him in the last few weeks in Pittsburg.
Milledge will get the games Nady ordinarily played. He will also fill in for Floyd as well. Coleman thinks they can get by and match the Nady numbers. Sanchez was a guy that surprised the Mets, and he pitched very well for them.
Giants said today, the Mets didnt put Milledge in a package for Jason Schmidt.
Discussing Glavine, he was not happy with being taken out early. Coleman said he thinks he lacks confidence right now. He needs to command things a bit better.
Coleman said he could see a situation when Pelfrey pitches tonight and goes back to the minors, so they can get Maine another start. Unless Pelfrey wows the Mets, he see them going with the veteran arms in the playoffs, Pedro, Glavine, Trachsel and El Duque.
Pitch count was down for Pedro last outing, which was a good sign. He's going to back out there on Thursday. He sees plenty of opportunites to scale back his starts to give him more rest in September.
Sphere: Related ContentMaine Remains As Reliever, Possible Spot Start
Posted by Anthony De RosaJuly 14, 2006 at 2:00 pm
14 Jul
The New York Times reports that John Maine will remain with the Mets as a reliever, and depending on the status of Pedro Martinez, may make a spot start…
Martínez, who
rejoined the team Thursday but was unavailable for comment, was
scheduled to throw on the side Friday or Saturday. But even if he
throws Friday and says his sore hip feels better and that he is
stronger, it is unlikely the Mets would rush him into starting
Wednesday. Either Maine or Steve Trachsel, Friday’s starter, would
replace him.
Thursday’s workout. Maine did not pitch poorly in his two recent
starts, allowing five earned runs in 10 2/3 innings, but the Mets have
more invested in Pelfrey and feel that he would develop more quickly in
the major leagues.
three first-inning homers against Livan Hernandez. “We have a lot of
confidence. We just have an attitude about us right now that we don't
think we're going to lose.”
“Last year we had guys on the ropes and let them hang in the ballgame,”
Wright said. “This year we smell blood, we go for the kill.”
said Delgado, who went 3 for 5 with a home run and also scored three
times. “That's nice for us. It doesn't happen too often, but it's nice
when you have this.”
Cliff Floyd…
“The one thing that has probably kept me sane is the team is winning,” Floyd said. As for his reaction to homering, he offered: “I felt like the biggest
idiot in the world. You go up there and you swing so nice and easy and
compact and then you get good results, whereas the first week every
swing I was taking was trying to hit the ball out of the stadium.”
On their hot start…
“Hype goes a long way,” Floyd said. “But when you actually show it,you tend to shut people up. There ain't nothing about this phony.
That's pretty good for a team that everybody talks about not having
enough pitching, or not enough this or not enough that. But we're not
going to read into all that stuff. We're just going to keep playing.”
Willie Randolph…
Wednesday on WFAN, Willie Randolph said, “[Steve]
Trachsel is my fifth guy basically,” but yesterday the manager
explained himself.
“I just threw a number out,” he said. “I just basically said
that when you have your first two guys, Pedro and [Tom] Glavine,
everybody else is 3, 4 and 5, whatever you want to do. I might have
said that, but all I meant by that is that when you go around one time,
everyone just falls into place.”
On Anderson Hernandez…”The bottom line is winning, and if he's making a contribution to us
winning, then he'll continue to play,” manager Willie Randolph said of
Hernandez. “That's what it's all about. You don't want to mess up that
rhythm. I'm not just going to throw Matsui in there when he gets back.
If we're playing well, and [Hernandez] is doing certain things, then
he's going to play. That could be all year as far as I'm concerned. I'm
not going to fool around with a situation that's working.”
Steve Trachsel...
the longest tenure with the club of any active Met — five seasons and
eight games.
Paul “The Duke” Lo Duca…
Paul Lo Duca doesn't recall that same sense elsewhere.
“Not
really,” he said. “But here, we have so much talent. I've been on
talented teams before, but it doesn't seem like anything's missing
here.”
“The best team in baseball?”
After an extended exhale, he continued.
“That's the way we feel,” he said without qualification.
Former Fish Carlos Delgado and Paul “The Duke” Lo Duca will face their former mates tonight as the Mets take on the Florida Marlins. The Marlins won 1 of 3 in their series with the Astros to start off the season, last night narrowly missing a late inning comeback.
Tonight, Steve “Slow Hand” Traschel takes the mound, thus the heading of this article “Sleeping With The Fishes”, in reference to the laboring pace that Slow Hand seems to take when on the hill. Steve has lost his last three decisions to the Marlins and has not won against them since June 25, 2003. Overall, last year he went 1-4 with a 4.14 ERA after missing the first five months
recovering from back surgery.
Florida will have lefty Jason Vargas, who was 5-5
with a 4.03 ERA in 17 games - 13 starts - after being called up
from Double-A Carolina.
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