Quote Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg View Post
Love getting Toussaint, but I don't see why we'd want Arroyo. Aging pitcher coming off TJ who's never been much more than league average. If we put him in the rotation, he's taking the spot of a young kid. Honestly, our rotation is dealing outside of Teheran. And when you look at the numbers, he's mostly been bad on the road. I'd attribute a lot of that to trying to throw the damn 2-seamer more. He's looked a lot better since going back to the way he pitched last year.

Unless it was really early in his career, I don't ever remember Arroyo coming out of the pen. Plus I think he'd probably fit best in a long relief, spot starter role. And once again, I see the same problem sticking him in the pen that we have sticking him in the rotation: He'd be taking the spot of a young pitcher who could use the development. Frankly, I'd rather call up Banuelos to use out of the pen. But it's been so bad, I guess we're willing to take a flyer on anyone we think could help us, even if they are ridiculously overpriced like Arroyo.

It just doesn't make sense for us to add Arroyo, but I guess that's why I'm not a GM.
Taking on arroyo's salary is why we were able to get TT.