Adding a swing and miss late inning reliever is very much needed right now. I don’t know how many more of those Merryweather experiments were going to survive. Thornton warming behind him actually made me feel worse and that’s hard to fathom.
He wasn’t an Ace. But it was pretty safe to say he was going to pitch atleast like #3 the next 5 seasons. A lot ot his numbers jump out of you for being historically bad but he’s just not missing bats the way he has in the past.