Cubs interested in Todd Coffey?

Sorry, it's from a tweet...was originally linked to in a post on HBT, This doesn't make a whole lot of sense given the desire to give younger arms, innings.

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Coffey is a decent middle reliever.

I’m not sure why the Nats didn’t retain him.

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by Al Yellon on Jan 31, 2012 4:39 PM CST reply actions

Sign and flip

Works for me

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by timh815 on Jan 31, 2012 4:44 PM CST reply actions

Sure. Why not? He's not going to cost a bunch of money,

and I like the idea of having a relatively stable bullpen with a young team. Wins will be difficult to come by a lot of the time. To continually blow the leads you do manage to have can be demoralizing. Then, if enough young arms come along that a guy like Coffey is expendable, there’s always a market.

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by davidalanu on Jan 31, 2012 4:55 PM CST up reply actions

The flipping

Seems like at least as much of a reason to sign a guy like Coffey as the whole help-make-the-bullpen-better thing. Hopefully he looks good, and becomes a modestly reasonable trade piece mid-season. I wouldn’t hate it.

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by Brett Taylor on Jan 31, 2012 6:11 PM CST up reply actions

He should have an increase in stamina in Wrigley

Distance from the bullpens to the mound is less of a sprint than anywhere else.

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by unretrofied93 on Jan 31, 2012 4:54 PM CST reply actions

hate lookin at that guy

must be the mad dash from the pen…

by daily2b on Jan 31, 2012 5:03 PM CST up reply actions

Same here.

I couldn’t stand him when he was with the Brewers. His numbers are all over the place, too. I guess he’s been decent enough — and durable — for the last three seasons as a middle reliever.

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by daver on Jan 31, 2012 5:32 PM CST up reply actions