Just two days after being fooled by Jose Reyes into balking twice in the same inning before giving up the game-winning home run to Carlos Delgado, closer Armando Benitez has been traded to the Florida Marlins. In return, the San Francisco Giants will get reliever Randy Messenger.
The jumpy, hard-throwing veteran is 0-3 with 2 blown saves and a 4.67 ERA so far this season. The 34-year-old Benitez is returning to his roots, where he set a team record with a career-high 47 saves in 2004 - his only season with the Marlins.
Messenger was 1-1 with a 2.66 ERA going into the Florida's game at Milwaukee last night and is making the absolute minimum of $380,000 this year. In three seasons, the 25-year-old righty is 3-8 with a 4.98 ERA over 111 relief appearances.
[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
5 comments:
You're so gangstuh, Messenger.
Thug life in Florida.
That impending doom must have been terrible the past three days.
Good riddance!
Once again, as a Mets fan, I look forward to the opportunity to face Blownitez eleventy-seven more times this year.
I have a feeling Randy Messenger was the token white kid who hung out with the black kids in the cafeteria in high school.
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