Ex-Tiger Willis signs for a million with Phillies

[turok]

Wow....haha!! I have lost track of how many MLB teams have tried and failed to use the D-Train in their pitching staff, since his 29 million abortion of an extended three-year stint with the Tigers finally and mercifully ended.

??? :

Yet Willis STILL has managed to stick around somehow, remaining mostly in the bigs since then, and I thought that he was washed up for sure in baseball, or at least in MLB after he repeatedly shit the bed/mound in almost every one of his starts with the Tigers.

So why didn't any team give the lefty Jarrod Washburn (who had indicated that he still wanted to pitch) a chance the season after his brief injury-marred late season hookup with Tigers in '09? He had pitched pretty well with the Mariners, prior to being traded, and yeah I know that he was/is older than Willis, but he might have been able to pitch at least as well as a LH Brad Penny-type on a one year contract, had he been given a (successful shot) @ age 35 in a ST invite, IMO.

Edit: whoops..forgot the link: AP Source: Phillies give 1-year deal to Willis

 

[biggunsbob]

Must be nice to get paycheck after paycheck like this..

 

[tigermud]

GL with that Philly

 

[byco42]

Two words. Left and Handed.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

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The Badenhop deal to TB means Dallas Trahern is the only player left in the Marlins system from the Miguel Cabrera deal. #greattrade #tigers