Brewers sign Jeff Weaver

Is it bad that for most of February/March I was hoping that the Cards would sign ole Jeff?

I’d rather have Mulder than Weaver.

of course Mulder has a higher upside, he was a fantastic pitcher before he had the shoulder troubles, and his first year with the cards was phenomenal, he should of won 20 games if the bullpen didn’t lose about 4 of his games.

Weaver isn’t coming off of surgery, but it’s obvious that he’s not as good of a pitcher as mulder, he was decent in the half season he pitched for the cards (still an ERA over 5) and was great when he needed to be in the post season. Then he went back to the AL West (where the angels dumped him because of how terrible he was) and low and behold, he had 27 starts and a ERA over 6 battling a few injuries in the beginning of the season (if you can call them injuries, it might of been the mariners needed to put him on the DL because of how utterly crappy he was in his first few starts)

He’s insurance if Sheets goes down and the brew crew don’t feel like narveson would be better than Weaver in the big leagues or if any of the lower arms in the rotation start to fuzz out. If Weaver does get called up, i imagine him to be just decent with a high ERA.

When mulder returns, completely healthy unlike 2007, he’ll pitch way better than Weaver will and will probably be a good #2, #3 starter for the rest of the season and 09. (seriously, carpenter, wainwright, mulder as a 1-2-3 punch is going to be great in 09 with piniero probably being a #4 starter, and who knows about #5—i’d actually prefer signing lohse to a 1,2 year deal if he continues to do well and ends up having an ERA under 4 for the season.)

Clement? I’ve already forgotten about him.

:(