Comments on: Horacio Ramirez, a retrospective

By: Taylor H

Taylor H — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:23:01 +0000

well, he was resigned for 2.75M for 1 year. They never do learn, do they?

By: timc

timc — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:10:42 +0000

Tangotiger revisits the HoRam trade in the book blog. Somehow, this unbiased, yet sympathetic, analysis makes it all the more painful. Soriano has out K'd HoRam, as a reliever, for goodness sakes! Argh.

By: galaxieboi

galaxieboi — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:25:54 +0000

This is a day late and a dollar short. Ho-Ram sucks *****. That’s my orjective, statistical analysis of his performance.

By: davepaisley

davepaisley — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:34:38 +0000

John McLaren begs to disagree.

Just a little bit more loyalty will push HoRam over the top.

Or was it cliff? I forget…

By: vin

vin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:10:39 +0000

I found this post to be well researched and especially well written. However, I feel like I already knew that Horacio Ramirez sucked and significantly cost this team in their playoff hopes so I don’t know if I am necessarily reacting to this in the desired fashion.

That being said, this would be great if it appeared in something like the PI or the Times where a more casual baseball audience could give it a read and learn how inept their favorite team is at building a roster and evaluating talent. Or, if it was read by a Lincoln or a Bavasi who by some feat of magic or sorcery could suddenly understand it and find the folly in their ways. Alas, as a post on the site it is merely another well written piece explaining why something is true when it seems so obvious to me.

By: CecilFielderRules

CecilFielderRules — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:50:42 +0000

This is made worse, of course, by what we gave up in return. The best summary I’ve seen is : “Turning Rafael Soriano into Horacio Ramirez is similar to what my digestive system does with food.”

By: Ralph Malph

Ralph Malph — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:36:59 +0000

So I have showed up an hour late for work, gotten no work done, and then left early for 20 work days in a row. But then today, when I rolled in at about a quarter for 10 with a stogie in my hand and sat down at my desk to eat a donut and surf the net for a couple of hours before lunch, I was stunned when I turned around and saw my boss coming over with a pink slip in his hand. I mean, I’m making $100K to work here, I don’t expect to get treated with this kind of disrespect. What’s the deal, anyway?

By: scott19

scott19 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:39:26 +0000

10: Wonder what Bobby Cox and Roger McDowell were smoking at the time?

By: Colm

Colm — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:56:57 +0000

So that’s 102 innings actually pitched and an ERA well north of 7.

Good lord…

By: westfried

westfried — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:25:15 +0000

Remember, too, that Horacio was on the mound for the snow game in Cleveland: 4 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 0 ER, 3 K, 6 BB, 0 HR, which I think is a GS of 41. And those were some lame “unearned” runs, where there was an error for a missed out, followed by suck.

So, but for the grace of the “human snow delay”, Ho would have yet another loss and sucky start in the official record.