Having had the pleasure (that's not really the right word) of seeing Shawn Chacon pitch over the past two seasons in Pittsburgh, I was kind of surprised when the Astros signed him this off-season and decided to put him in the rotation. In the past few years, Chacon has been awful as a starter and fairly passable as a reliever. Unsurprisingly, he's been pretty bad and he's going back to the pen. That doesn't mean he's happy about it, though. From the Houston Chronicle: "I think it's horse (expletive)," Chacon said. "That's pretty much how I feel about it. Sums it up."
[...]"I didn't expect him to be totally happy because he came here because he had a chance to start," Cooper said. "I'm not concerned that he's unhappy because I think he'll do whatever he needs to get it done."
Nice to know Cecil Cooper is concerned about his players. The most hurtful part of the whole thing for Chacon? He's losing his rotation spot to Runelvys Hernandez. Did you know Runelvys Hernandez was still in baseball? He hasn't pitched in the bigs since 2006, hasn't been relevant since 2003, and washed out of minor league stints with the Pirates, Red Sox, and Yankees last year before getting his stuff together in AAA Round Rock in '08. Losing a rotation spot to him? That stings.
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6-23-2008 @ 12:24AM
George B Vieto said...
Shawn Chacon losing his starting job to a baseball version of an unkwown pitcher. That really hurts.
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