Jim Bowden, DC’s reigning crackhead
December 5th, 2006 | by jg3 |When he’s not drinking and driving, Washington Nationals General Manager Jim Bowden is often quoted as saying that the team’s greatest needs are “Pitching, pitching, and pitching.”
So it would make sense, then, that a team who is rebuilding and its farm system and fleshing out the major league team with young players would keep the 22 year old closer that led the major league in saves his rookie year, 2005. Right?
Now the reporters, who are admittedly beginning to experience the shakes as wintertime baseball withdrawl symptoms set in, are telling us that Bowden may be wheeling and dealing away one of the few bright spots on the pitching staff … for an outfielder. An outfielder? We may have lost Soriano, but unless Wily Mo Pena learns to pitch, trading away our young, star closer for an outfielder seems like not only a mistake but a hypocrisy.
A couple of weeks ago, The Boston Globe reported that the Nationals were interested in outfielder Wily Mo Pena for closer Chad Cordero. The Red Sox need a closer, because they plan to put Jonathan Papelbon, their stopper last season, into the starting rotation.
It seems to me that Jim Bowden has a few friends in Major League Baseball, both players and coaches. And it looks like he’s done a fair job of keeping them employed with whatever team he happens to work for. Sure, those players may be good but if they are not what our team, this team needs, it isn’t right to bring them on board.
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