Give the job to Perry. Closer is the single most overrated position in all of sport. Any relief pitcher who can throw a 95+ fastball for a strike about 80% of the time and has a half-decent out pitch can save 30 games. Yeah, some are better than others, but come on, Todd Jones(!) saved 319 games in his career and he couldn’t even throw hard!

That’s what ERA and Saves are to some people. Either the O’s had zero internal options and were forced to overpaid or they just flat out overpaid.

That much for 2 years? This tells me that Matt Capps is officially going to be too expensive for us. Find the precious closer in the system.

I swear the guys at MLB Trade Rumors, when the offseason first began, insisted that it would be a buyer’s market for closers because of the large number of relievers on the FA market and the relatively small number of teams in need of a closer. It sure hasn’t turned out that way. Are the Braves (and the 7 million they gave to Billy Wagner) to blame?

Oh, and I was somewhat intruiged by Matt Capps, but with ten or more teams being interested, it’s unlikely he’d agree to my terms.

As expressed above, its the most overrated – and overpaid – position in baseball.

I’d much rather have a manager play matchups to close games than to rely on a designated guy to pitch the 9th and “manage to the stat” for their closer. Too often, closers are bad matchups and very few are truly more successful than average for an already statistically “easy” job in acquiring saves.

He is coming off an injury. But he has said he wants to work out of the bullpen to save his shoulder.

We’re paying him anyways, What the heck, he only needs to get 3 outs!!!

Closers won’t get cheaper and Rodney isn’t going to chop his market price by over half. He might come down from his 3y/$30m number but not far enough for the Tigers at this point.

Closer by committee, here we go!

While many people still think the Tigers can compete next year, the prevailing thought in my mind is that we are gearing up for 2011 and beyond. If that is the case, wouldn’t you want to spend this year finding the “closer of the future” from a young, in-house option?

Isn’t experience going to be the best thing for finding out who can take the mound in the 9th? I say this now and then watch as we throw out young guys, shake their confidence by sending them out there too early and then have to spend money on an outside option in 2011 anyways. I’ll take the blame for that one.

Matt Capps prefers the Cubs, for those keeping track