Chris Resop, Pirates Agree To $850,000 Deal

by Charlie Wilmoth on Jan 13, 2012 8:17 PM EST

PITTSBURGH - JUNE 22: Chris Resop #30 of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitches against the Baltimore Orioles during the game on June 22, 2011 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)

Praise Tebow, some actual news. Chris Resop and the Pirates have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year deal worth $850,000. That's not particularly significant news, true, but it does put into perspective how absurd it was that there was speculation the Pirates might not tender Resop. He's a frustrating pitcher, but if you can sign a 29-year-old reliever who strikes out way more than a batter an inning, and it costs you one year and $850,000, you get it done as fast as possible and give everyone around the office a high five. It's an easy call. Resop is a little too walk- and homer-happy, and he relies too much on his fastball, but he's still a pretty good bet to be useful, and he might still become something more than that.

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Glad to hear it

I’ve been one of the bigger Resop apologists on the board, and even though last year’s numbers don’t really bear this out, I still think he’s gonna have a great 2012.

by Garrett122 on Jan 13, 2012 9:34 PM EST reply actions

HIGH FIVE

for Neal.

by King Oskar on Jan 13, 2012 9:37 PM EST via Android app reply actions

The Pirates can only afford a high four.

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by WTM on Jan 13, 2012 9:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Cuz Nutting is cheap

by maguro on Jan 13, 2012 9:50 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

So cheap that his contracts only have spots for 6 digits.

by pskell02 on Jan 13, 2012 9:50 PM EST up reply actions

Gotta be a trade soon

We are busting out the seams with bullpen arms:

McCutchen
Moskos
Watson
Meek
Hanrahan
Resop
Morris
Wilson
Lincoln
Leroux
Grilli
Correia
Hughes

by bmcferren on Jan 13, 2012 10:22 PM EST reply actions

well Hughes, Leroux, Morris, Wilson, Moskos and Watson can go to AAA I believe. As well as Lincoln if we dont have room. So we dont HAVE to make a trade

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by C Shint on Jan 13, 2012 11:39 PM EST up reply actions

surely lincoln is out of options by now, right? Either way he’s probably right that we deal one of them in late-March for an A ball catcher or something.

by Mr. E on Jan 14, 2012 2:43 AM EST up reply actions

Not Leroux

Leroux is out of options. Lincoln and Morris each have one left.

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by WTM on Jan 14, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions

Hanrahan is the only one of those guys with significant trade value right now. Teams looking for a decent-ish middle reliever or setup guy can just sign one.

by Vlad on Jan 15, 2012 4:35 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

i agree with ya

but we just traded Veras, so ya never know

by white angus on Jan 15, 2012 5:01 PM EST up reply actions

I like Resop

Nice deal.

Should the Pirates keep Neal Huntington?

http://www.bucsdugout.com/2011/5/16/2174135/poll-should-huntington-be-retained

by Kosstic518 on Jan 13, 2012 10:39 PM EST via mobile reply actions

yup.

Yinzers uber alles

by BostonBuc on Jan 13, 2012 11:28 PM EST up reply actions

wonder how long it will be

until we start seeing people complain about how the Pirates didn’t offer Taillon and Cole to get Montero

by PuncSpeedChunk on Jan 13, 2012 10:47 PM EST reply actions

It won't happen.

After all…how many actual prospects has Neal Huntington traded in the last 4+ years?

That list would be EXTREMELY short.

by Thunder on Jan 14, 2012 1:54 AM EST up reply actions

0 is a number, right?

by white angus on Jan 14, 2012 9:54 AM EST up reply actions

That was the number I had in mind.

by Thunder on Jan 14, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions

its the one major thing about NHs job that i dont like

not willing to trade prospects, even though he said he is ready to do it…. but, that may change, who knows.

by white angus on Jan 15, 2012 8:53 AM EST up reply actions

He traded Pounders like a month and a half ago. Pounders isn’t a great prospect, but he’s a prospect.

by Vlad on Jan 15, 2012 10:33 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

He also traded Aaron Baker — he probably counts as a not great prospect too.

There aren’t that many prospects I wish he’d traded; assuming that the Padres would’ve wanted high-end prospects, the only time I can think of when I would’ve wanted him to trade prospects for a guy was J.J. Hardy. I don’t want him doing Carlos Quentin-type deals.

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by WHYG Zane Smith on Jan 15, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions

there's also Ronald Uviedo and Todd Redmond

…which means he’s traded more prospects than he should’ve.

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by WHYG Zane Smith on Jan 15, 2012 4:09 PM EST up reply actions

I found Pounders on one prospect list from last season, so I will give Neal credit for trading one.

by Thunder on Jan 15, 2012 11:59 AM EST up reply actions

i cant do this

for a 2nd rounder, he wasnt much of a prospect

by white angus on Jan 15, 2012 2:34 PM EST up reply actions

I'm not arguing the point...

just conceding to Vlad that in some eyes (not mine), the number of prospects that NH has traded is not zero.

by Thunder on Jan 15, 2012 5:15 PM EST up reply actions

yeah, i just dont think guys like Pounders and Uviedo, etc, were prospects when traded

just because they havent played in the majors doesnt make them prospects. is aaron baker really a prospect? no. pounders should have been because of his drafting position, but he didnt live up to it. not yet, anyway.

trading a top prospect for an established player is something NH hasnt done, and i have doubts that he actually would do it

by white angus on Jan 15, 2012 6:33 PM EST up reply actions

Sickels put Uviedo as the #10 prospect in the org the year of the trade

link; Pounders actually made 20 on that list.

But agreed, NH hasn’t traded a top prospect yet. I don’t think he should’ve.

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by WHYG Zane Smith on Jan 15, 2012 7:23 PM EST up reply actions

That's quite

the concession, Thunder, ol’ boy…

Must’ve nearly killed you.

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by cocktailsfor2 on Jan 15, 2012 7:09 PM EST up reply actions

The Yankees wouldn’t take anybody we have in exchange for Montero. The value of Pineda to them is that he’s already had impressive major league success. They’re not looking for a prospect who’ll be ready in a year or two, or three, and who may not succeed at all.

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by WTM on Jan 14, 2012 10:00 AM EST up reply actions

Yep..

I was actually surprised they were able to land Pineda. Montero’s all but done catching and it has seemed his trade value has decreased a bit (for whatever reason) just as Pineda has a semi-breakout season.

That Yanks rotation sure looks a lot better than it did 48 hours ago.

by jlk9697 on Jan 14, 2012 10:42 AM EST up reply actions

Not so absurd.

I think it’s funny that Charlie mentions that speculation that Resop might not be tendered as absurd, but uses many more negatives “frustrating pitcher”, “walk- and homer- happy” and “relies too much on his fastball” to describe Resop than positives. Perhaps not tendering that kind of pitcher might not be so absurd after all.

I think for many, Resop is your average, sometimes decent, run-of-the-mill relief pitcher. For me personally, I thought the Pirates might not tender Resop because NH had re-built his bullpen each year and he could have signed any number of relievers that are pretty similar to Resop for around 750k-850k. It wasn’t about Resop not being worth that amount of money, but that Pirates could have found other similar relievers for roughly the same money, if they weren’t happy with him.

by impliedi on Jan 14, 2012 11:32 AM EST reply actions

I really thought Resop was a non-tender candidate, mainly because he seems to be just a one-pitch pitcher. In fact, if they hadn’t traded Veras, I’m not sure there’d have been room for him. (I’d have cut Grilli loose before Resop, but Hurdle obviously loves Grilli.) A lot would depend on whether your coaches thought they could upgrade his arsenal.

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by WTM on Jan 14, 2012 11:37 AM EST up reply actions

I like it.

He had 54 scoreless games out of 76. I’ll take that and a K per inning for 850,000.

by Tintin049 on Jan 14, 2012 10:56 PM EST reply actions

Off topic:

I was at the Marshall-UCF game last night and saw former Bucco pitcher Rick Reed at one of the bars around the corner beforehand.

We spend a lot of time talking about Taillon, Cole, Bell etc. for the Pirates’ future. This is all well and good, but we need a Rick Reed or two the next few years too.

Just my two yen worth….

by patthatt on Jan 15, 2012 12:49 PM EST reply actions

You just randomly recognized Rick Reed? That’s pretty cool.

by Charlie Wilmoth on Jan 15, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions

Similarly off-topic

I ran into Josh Fogg about 8 months ago in Tampa. The first thing I said was “I thought you were taller,” to which he responded “Everyone says that!!” Call me selfish, but if Pittsburgh’s going to lose, I’d rather they lose with likeable guys like Fogg. Giles, Kendall, Mike Williams… hard to be a big fan, especially when the team’s not doing so well.

by SuperBaes on Jan 15, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions

you make a great point

hard to like the unlikable guys, especially if they arent winning.

by white angus on Jan 15, 2012 2:35 PM EST up reply actions

Some would argue that Giles and Kendall don’t fit into that likeable guys category.

by Thunder on Jan 15, 2012 5:19 PM EST up reply actions

he said they arent likeable

by white angus on Jan 15, 2012 6:33 PM EST up reply actions

My eyesight is getting bad...

thought I saw a comma after Fogg and not a period, which of course changes the meaning entirely. My bad.

by Thunder on Jan 15, 2012 7:53 PM EST up reply actions

I read it the same way as you

twice.

by Wizard of Woz on Jan 16, 2012 1:34 PM EST up reply actions

No but they both fit itno the

“I thought you were taller” category.

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by cocktailsfor2 on Jan 15, 2012 7:10 PM EST up reply actions

A local guy we were with said he was somewhere in the bar.

I figured it out from there. He doesn’t look much different, if you imagine him with a decent amount of hair.

I’d heard he was back in the area. He worked for a year as a Marshall pitching coach and I read an article last year that said he is busy with his two adopted kids.

by patthatt on Jan 15, 2012 8:37 PM EST up reply actions