Jesse Chavez to Rangers

[bill hAll Star]

2 years, $8 million range.

 

This is good as it takes another arm away from the Cubs' bullpen.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

That is a terrific deal for a guy who was nails for the Cubs down the stretch. If that is the going rate for solid bullpen arms this year, the Brewers need to jump in and grab one or two.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

What happened to "If I'm back it's here and nowhere else" or whatever. I guess $8 million happened, but still funny.

[CrewFanBrewMan69]

We probably should’ve wanted the Cubs to give him 2 years and $8 million

[jerichoholicninja]

We probably should’ve wanted the Cubs to give him 2 years and $8 million

 

Ya. Guy's who have been bad pretty much their whole career and then have a career year at 34 generally don't repeat the good year again.

[bill hAll Star]

I guess I had assumed that there was some sort of pitch % change that Chavez made to turn into "good reliever" a la 2016-2017 Swarzak featuring his slider more. Might've just been luck for Chavez so I take back some of my excitement about the Cubs not keeping him.

[CrewFanBrewMan69]

We probably should’ve wanted the Cubs to give him 2 years and $8 million

 

Ya. Guy's who have been bad pretty much their whole career and then have a career year at 34 generally don't repeat the good year again.

Yeah, he literally pitched like one of the best relief pitchers in MLB once he got there last year. I think getting out of Texas helped and he doesn't walk guys and has a few decent pitches and I think he can be an okay relief pitching option but he's 35 and this relief pitching class is deep, it's probably a good move by the Cubs to avoid doing this at this point of the offseason at that cost and add a different relief pitcher or two. They're stuck with Kintzler at least in the pen.

[wallus]

What happened to "If I'm back it's here and nowhere else" or whatever. I guess $8 million happened, but still funny.

 

This was my first thought as well.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Pretty much guarantees the Rangers deal him to the Cubs for nothing at the deadline again...

[long ball]

For the last 2 years i thought Jesse Chavez was the same guy the Brewers had a few years back named Daniel Herrera. I was amazed how well he was pitching remembering back to how bad he was for the Brewers and how well the Brewers hit him when he was on the Reds.

 

Those are my only thoughts on Jesse Chavez.

[MadScientist]

I guess I had assumed that there was some sort of pitch % change that Chavez made to turn into "good reliever" a la 2016-2017 Swarzak featuring his slider more. Might've just been luck for Chavez so I take back some of my excitement about the Cubs not keeping him.

 

He did make a change, going to almost all cutters. It seemed to work for him.

 

He's Texas' K-Rod. Get him, trade him, get him back, trade him again.

[adambr2]

I guess I had assumed that there was some sort of pitch % change that Chavez made to turn into "good reliever" a la 2016-2017 Swarzak featuring his slider more. Might've just been luck for Chavez so I take back some of my excitement about the Cubs not keeping him.

 

The general assumption on Swarzak about that though did not work out too well. He was straight up awful in 2018.

[reillymcshane]

What happened to "If I'm back it's here and nowhere else" or whatever. I guess $8 million happened, but still funny.

Rangers gave him 8 million reasons to change his mind.