Wednesday, December 30, 2009

IronPig Trade Update

In an ongoing effort to improve our pitching staff, LVI management is pleased to announce that we have added a former MLB 18 game winner to our team. Pitcher Kelvim Escobar was added to the team via trade. His presence in our locker room will give a big boost to our younger pitchers.

Unfortunately, Escobar injured his pitching arm playing WII Tiger Woods Golf 2009 and will not be able to participate in the upcoming season, but his knowledge and understanding of the NASBL pitchers should be a big benefit to Jose (don't eat the worm) Cuevo, er Cueto.

Escobar and an undetermined draft pick were added in exchange for utility man Chase Headley. We are sad to see Chase leave after only one season, but he was behind Longoria, Crawford and Lind on the depth chart so his outlook for playing time was slim at best.

Chase was unavailable for comment, but his Facebook had the following quote: "that's just great, I get traded to the only team that was worse than the IronPigs last year"!

3 comments:

jawga said...

The NASBL continues to chart new territory with the first Facebook reference to my knowledge.

Chase will most likley fill a utility role but could push Rios & Encarnacion to platoon duty.

Now if we can just get just get him moved out of Petco he may be able to help the 'Kill in the
long-run.

Iron Pig Press said...
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Iron Pig Press said...

It is also possibly the first WII (pronounced "wheee") reference (that's Nintendo WII, not the "second war to end all wars"). Two for the price of one! The ironic thing is that I have no personal knowledge of "Facebook".