Chris Duffy Gone

by Thunder on Nov 7, 2008 3:23 PM EST Comment 12 comments

It appears that Chris Duffy has decided that his future no longer lies with the Pittsburgh Pirates. But...of course...we already knew that.

Duffy declares free agency

From the article, it is clear that Duffy flat out left his Mexican winter league team and that there was no illness involved. This makes at least the 3rd time that Duffy has left a team for very little reason in the last few years.

The article states that several others declared minor league free agency, including Franquelis Osoria, Melvin Dorta, Luis Ordaz, Luis Cruz, Matt Kata, Miguel Perez and Carlos Maldonado. Cruz is on the 40 man roster, so unless he has been silently removed, that's not right.

Duffy either he will be out of baseball in a year, or some other team will get burned by his lack of commitment.

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Cruz

Luis Cruz isn’t on the list at Baseball America. Sadly, they’re probably more on the ball with that than MLB.com is.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=1786

http://www.whygavs.com
http://mlb.fanhouse.com

by whygavs on Nov 7, 2008 4:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Some interesting names on that list too...

a lot of X Pirates…like Big Country.

by Thunder on Nov 7, 2008 5:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

For instance...

Arizona…Don Kelly
Atlanta…Javier Guzman
Baltimore…Chris Heintz
Boston…Michael Tejera
Chicago Cubs…Luis Figueroa
Chicago WS…Brad Eldred and Scott Sauerbeck
Cincinnati…Rob Mackowiak
Cleveland…Yamid Haad and Wil Cordero
Colorado…Humberto Cota
Detroit…Kody Kirkland
Houston…Ray Sadler
Kansas City…Matt Peterson
NY Mets…Nelson Figueroa…Abe Nunez and Brian Rogers
NY Yankees…Scott Strickland and Victor Zambrano
Oakland…Bret Prinz
Phillies…John Suomi
St. Louis…Wayback Wasdin
San Francisco…Roberto Novoa and Josh Sharpless
Seattle…Shawn Garrett
Toronto…Jonah Bayliss
Washington…Pokey Reese…Yurendell DeCaster and Ray Olmedo.

Lots of teams decided that the trash we used to have wasn’t good enough for them either.

by Thunder on Nov 7, 2008 6:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m waiting for Vlad’s report on that list. It may be a few days before he surfaces.

by WTM on Nov 7, 2008 7:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry, guys.

Was away at a wedding over the weekend. I’ll get cracking on it soon.

by Vlad on Nov 10, 2008 11:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Chris Duffy

Finally Chris Duffy got released. He is like Manny Ramirez….. Without the hitting….fielding…..multimillion dollar contracts… so pretty much, he is a goner.

by dasox313 on Nov 7, 2008 5:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Also...a new first base coach.

Perry Hill…who used to be with the Marlins.
New first base coach

by Thunder on Nov 7, 2008 5:38 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

That is awesome news!

Perry Hills is one of the most respected infield instructors in the game. This is an extremely important hire considering we may lose Wilson. These are the kind of moves that often fly under the radar but go a long way to showing just how much the culture is changing with our current GM. I liked the Kerrigan signing but I’m extremely pleased we picked up Hill. Now I’m just waiting to see what kind of moves NH makes at the Winter Meetings, if any.

by Slick1 on Nov 7, 2008 6:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Aaaaaand ...

the Bucs Dugout Chris Duffy Fan Club officially disbands.

by bucdaddy on Nov 7, 2008 9:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

bring back macko

rob mackowiak? he was well loved in pittsburgh as a utility player and bringing him back would excite a good portion of the fan base. we could sign him for cheap and he would bring a spark any time he was in the lineup. he is one of the few players of the modern (aka since 93) era that was truly embraced by the fans. i for one would love to see him in a bucco uniform again

by xavierthesavior on Nov 9, 2008 2:01 AM EST reply actions 0 recs