I feel like, at absolute best, we’d get league average out of him. At worst, he’d never set foot on the field. Before his injuries, he was good for 170+ innings. Post-Tommy John? Anybody’s guess.

I was an “on the cheap” voter, so I feel obligated to be specific…I’m talking roughly Chacon money (~$2mil/yr.) with incentives based on innings pitched.

An incentives laden deal for innings would be the only way I’d touch him. He showed some promise, so it might be a good insurance bet against Moehler falling apart.

like 1 – 1.5 million (and even that’s pushing it). It just seems to me that anything more would be better spent elsewhere. He’s just so injury prone, and the payoff is probably so little that it’s just not worth it.

Really, the value is just in the nostalgia of having Mike Hampton pitch in Houston again. And I don’t think that’s worth giving up what his paycheck would otherwise buy us.

even compared to guys like Sheets. So, you have to figure there is a high probability he won’t spend much time on the field. But he is a LHP, and if he will sign for a cheap deal, OK. If he is signed, the understanding should be that he will be one pitcher among several competing for the No. 5 rotation slot.

For a total of 20MM a yr, then chances are one or two of them would stay healthly. :p

Oswalt, Sheets, Wolf, Rodriguez, Moehler

Backe goes as a Set Up man he has the attitude I think.

I’m still not won over by Wolf or Moehler as a full season good pitcher

not won over by Sheets’ broken arm

(sorry I can’t reply to comments on here while at work for some reason, I can ony post new comments)