Guy must be dreading spring. That's such a long way to fall. If I were him I'd be taking the cash and moving on to something else as soon as the contract was over.
He could very well be. Steamer thinks he's a 4.83 ERA guy. ZiPS 4.44. Shave a third of a run off that if he's exclusively a reliever, and that's still not really playable.
He mostly likely will start in the back end of the pen, but there are a lot of posts along the lines of "outside of Cecil, Loup, and Sanchez the pen is weak" it just seems to be widely assumed that he's going to warrant high leverage innings, when I think its a lot more likely that Sanchez in those types of spots hurts the team more than it helps.
I'm a bit surprised that everyone just assumes Sanchez is going to be a back-end pen arm. He looked good in 2014, but there's a long history of control issues there and he doesn't miss bats.
Weeks is not a replacement-level player. Especially if used in a platoon with, say, Kawasaki. And none of Goins, Kawasaki, Izturis, and Santiago are going to easily do anything, let alone average play at 2B in the majors.
The team doesn't even have a 2B. Weeks would slot in perfectly against LHP, and you'd think that would be more attractive than maybe DHing against lefties in Seattle (Cruz will get the lion's share of those opportunities), especially given the friendly home park here.
Damn, the Mariners signed Rickie Weeks for $2 million + 2 in potential bonuses. You have to think he would have accepted the same here with 2B wide open. Would have been a perfect signing.