Vaya con Dios, Senor Penny

[sprocketboy]

By John Barone / MLB.com
08/27/09 12:42 AM ET
BOSTON -- Brad Penny's days in a Red Sox uniform appear to be over.
According to The Boston Herald, the veteran right-hander requested and received his release on Wednesday night, clearing the way for Thursday's arrival of newly acquired reliever Billy Wagner.
"I asked for my release and I got it," Penny told The Herald.


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If this was really initiated by Penny and/or his agent, my respect for him just went up.


Anyone want to lay odds that Penny pitches a CGSO for some NL team between now and October?

[southcarolina]

If this was really initiated by Penny and/or his agent, my respect for him just went up.


Anyone want to lay odds that Penny pitches a CGSO for some NL team between now and October?

I predict that he will be a member of the St Louis Ex RedSox within the week.

[sprocketboy]

I predict that he will be a member of the St Louis Ex RedSox within the week.

You mean, like this?


By Ray Kinsella / MLB.COM

ST. LOUIS -- The competition level was different. A mechanical tweak didn't hurt. But maybe one other thing went into Brad Penny's eye-catching game against the Nationals on Sunday. Maybe his pitch location was better because his garter belt was aligned correctly for once.

Among the various explanations for the six shutout innings Penny pitched -- highlighted by nine strikeouts -- was that he and the Cardinals believe he had been wearing his 'lucky garter' under his uniform pants with the rose in back. Cardinals' catcher Yadier Molina happened to walk by Penny's locker as he was dressing for the game, and noticed him putting on the garter with the rose in back. Molina pointed out the mis-alignment to Penny, who promptly rotated his garter so that the rose was in front, and the results are hard to argue with.

"It's pretty clear his pitches were catching too much of the plate because of that rose," manager Tony La Russa said after the game. "And when that wasn't happening, Penny was missing the plate entirely, leading to walks in critical situations."

St. Louis has something of a history with this. It's one of the things the club's staff looks for when trying to "fix" a pitcher. "That's one of the things I teach the catchers and coaching staff to notice," said Cardinals' pitching coach Dave Duncan. "Sometimes, little things like that go a long way toward explaining a pitcher's woes. I once heard a story about how Bob Gibson went on a tear back in 1967 after the bullpen catcher noticed that he was breathing out of the wrong eyelid. I don't know if that story is strictly true, but I do know that Gibson ended up winning the World Series MVP award that year."

[Bases Loaded]

Not even a DFA? I really don't understand that move. He is not THAT bad, and would fare much better against NL hitting. Who cares if he asks for a release? He doesn't even deserve an opinion the way he's pitched for us.

[Mikiemo83]

Looks Like DiceK is ready to return around september 8th so Penny was not needed with Wake back


too bad too as he was grabbed when waived but pulled back, we could have used a bag of balls or something from whom ever it was drunk enough to want him

[3 Point Stan]

Penny wouldn't have been dropped from the rotation from 28 or 29 other teams, let alone released.

It's moves like this that make me realize how spoiled we are. I like being spoiled :)

http://johnnyvengeance.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/11-300x269.jpg

[oldskool138]

The only thing Brad Penny strikes fear into the heart of is a buffet table.

[Grumpy_Bottom]

The only thing Brad Penny strikes fear into the heart of is a <s>buffet table</s> b list starlet.
:eek:

[southcarolina]

http://www.nesn.com/2009/08/yankees-reportedly-interested-in-penny.html


According to the New York Post, the Yankees are interested in right-handed pitcher Brad Penny, whom the Red Sox released on Thursday.

The 31-year-old who went 7-8 with a 5.61 ERA this summer for the Red Sox, would be a sizable upgrade over New York's Sergio Mitre, the team's current fifth starter.

[Mikiemo83]

Marlins and Giants are interested

[Joolz]

He'll probably go to another team and become the best...

Nah.

They'll discover he was tipping his pitches in Boston. :)

[Mikiemo83]

He'll probably go to another team and become the best...

Nah.

They'll discover he was tipping his pitches in Boston. :)looks like he was tipping a lot of waitstaff in Boston, the dude got large

[Baloon Knot Hunter]

I'll be willing to bet the reason Penny was so awful his last 2 months in Boston were because his eyelids were jammed. The new team he plays for will sacrafice a chicken and he will become awesome again.