It’s no great secret that heading into the Winter Meetings, the Yellow Springs Nine are on what has turned into a perpetual vision quest for a real live starting pitcher. At one point, they had Juan Guerrero in the mix to at least make a 4th with Carlos Valle, Ernesto Ramos, and Luis Colón, but Guerrero went away in the expansion draft, and the Nine were left with a bag of stale Doritos and a slate of fading dreams.
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“We thought we had a better offer on the table,” said an anonymous member of the club’s staff. “But it was for only one year.”
The Nine deal was rumored to be in the range of $11M and have a few incentives that could have bumped that to a degree.
UNHAPPY FANS SCHEDULE PROTEST
Taking these two events, and matching them with a sudden flurry of news notes coming from the team about their minor league pitchers, Nine fans are getting antsy. “We want a real rotation,” said Bleed Nine Red fan chairman Kal Freedman. “If the front office doesn’t make something happen, we will. Someone has to tell these guys that this chicken-shit patching of a two-man job isn’t going to cut the mustard.”
The group has scheduled a sit-in at the team’s executive offices for this coming Tuesday in order to make their point more clear.