Article: Matt Capps and his looming option year

[YourHouseIsMyHouse]

Capps is a good pitcher. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to taking the option. For me, the salary isn't a big issue unless it prohibits signing a free agent starting pitcher.

 

Even a healthy Capps is not worth the $6.25m difference between the option and the buyout. Pass.

 

Scott Baker won't get that much in 2013. Who would you rather see paid that money?

 

Obviously he's not worth it, but he's an above average righty when healthy and a familiar option. Capps performance is not a gamble if he stays with the team. I see the Pohlad's saving money this year and think it wouldn't harm the Twins financially if they decided to pick it up. I don't mind 1 year deals for larger amounts of money. It doesn't hamper the following year with a hefty salary and for the year 2013, money won't be an issue.

[YourHouseIsMyHouse]

Capps is a good pitcher. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to taking the option. For me, the salary isn't a big issue unless it prohibits signing a free agent starting pitcher.

 

If Capps is a good pitcher, Butera is a good catcher and Valencia was a good 3B and Nishioka is a good middle infielder. The Twins could have saved some money and signed one of the other half a dozen guys that got one year deals and would have had about the same pitcher.

 

Some other team can sign him for the 2-3 million range and he can be there problem. I just hope he stays in the AL so he can pitch BP to us at the end of the game.

 

No logic in this response at all. A 3.61 ERA (since joining the Twins) is pretty good as a reliever. He keeps runners off the bases and an excellent WHIP of 1.172 shows that. He's not elite, but really? Don't compare him to scrubs who couldn't cut it in the majors.

[Alex]

 

No logic in this response at all. A 3.61 ERA (since joining the Twins) is pretty good as a reliever. He keeps runners off the bases and an excellent WHIP of 1.172 shows that. He's not elite, but really? Don't compare him to scrubs who couldn't cut it in the majors.

 

No he's not Nishi or Butera. But, just so we're clear, 3.61 ERA would place him in the bottom half of all relievers since 2010. He's not elite, no, and he's really not even been that good, and certainly not worth the money.

[snepp]

He would be a fine reliever to have around for a million or two, as the fourth or fifth option out of the pen.

[Brock Beauchamp]

He would be a fine reliever to have around for a million or two, as the fourth or fifth option out of the pen.

 

I'd go as far to say that he'd be an excellent third option, maybe even second if he can get healthy and repeat 2010.

 

But not at $6.5m. Never.

[Docsilly]

Pay him his buyout of 250K and then try to sign him to an incentive laden deal. 2 years/4 million with bonuses that could reach 1-1.5 million/year. I really like the possibility of Capps in the 7th, Burton 8th, and Perkins being the closer. Now mix in the younger guys and that looks pretty good! Bullpen set for next year and not a lot of $$$$$$. Now go get a starter or two.

[snepp]

I'd go as far to say that he'd be an excellent third option, maybe even second if he can get healthy and repeat 2010..

 

If he's healthy, and if he could work his way back to a mid-7's strikeout rate.

[Montecore]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.