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Hooray For Recessions!

Just in, the Dodgers have signed reliever Will Ohman, which is something we’ve been hoping for for months around here. But that’s not the eye-catching part here, because look at this detail from the official release:

The Los Angeles Dodgers announced today that they have signed left-handed pitcher Will Ohman to a one-year minor league contract with Major League terms, including a club option for 2010.

A minor-league deal?! With a club option?! Holy hell, that price drop might even be more shocking than Orlando Hudson’s. Man, did Ohman’s agent screw this up or what? And yes, I was thinking that even before I read this quote from an anonymous AL talent evaluator in Buster Olney’s blog today:

“No. 2: What precisely was Will Ohman‘s agent thinking? He has said for a month that he had $1 million-plus on the table and just wanted performance bonuses to get to $2.50 million. Now, it is a week before Opening Day and the word out from his tryout for the Dodgers is that he isn’t close to ready to go. He should have just given up the ghost for ’09 and signed two weeks ago like Beimel.

Can’t argue that – this is simply a brutal downturn for Ohman. But hey, his loss is our gain, because adding a solid veteran arm to a bullpen that sorely needed is a huge win.

On another note, anyone over at Rotoworld want to wake up and pay attention?

Eric Milton… or Eric Stults… or…  

It’s Official: Dodgers Finally Sign Will Ohman

Well, we have breaking news folks… 

Vin has posted an article! 

The blog has not been hacked, I assure you, and somewhere MSTI’s jaw is on the floor.  I understand.  But, you see, the reason it took me so long was because me and my agent, let’s call him Scott, have been negotiating with MSTI earnestly during the offseason.  What can I say?  I felt that after the move to MVN, I deserved a multiyear deal for all the work on WordPress and it caused me and MSTI to negotiate for quite a long time until we finally just started from scratch.  But it got done and, well: I’m baaccck. 

But the real reason of this article…

According to Dodgers.com, the Dodgers have finally signed Will Ohman!  It took until a week before the season started, but we finally found our situational lefty out of the pen.  Our LOOGY.  Or Troy From West Virginia’s new best friend.  The financial details are still undisclosed at this point, except that it is a minor league deal with an option for another year. 

Now given that MSTI has talked about Ohman quite often this past week, there’s no need to go into depth here, as mostly everything has been said, other than it was a much needed signing for the Dodgers that does fulfill a need in the bullpen given the loss of Beimel, it also adds depth, and spares us from the likes of Brian Mazone and Erick Threets.  Always a good thing.