Diamondbacks Pick Up 2010 Option on Brandon Webb

by snakecharmer on Nov 6, 2009 11:53 AM EST in News Comment 13 comments

Webb will return to the mound at Chase Field in 2010 as a Diamondback.

As predicted by 5 out of 5 Snake Pit moderators, the Diamondbacks have indeed picked up Brandon Webb's option for the 2010 season! This comes via the FoxSportsArizona twitter feed, and should be confirmed by an actual story soon. [Update: Now confirmed on the AP wire, which adds, "General manager Josh Byrnes says Webb has recovered well from an Aug. 4 arthroscopic surgery on his pitching shoulder."]

Brandon Webb missed nearly all of the 2009 season due to shoulder injury and surgery, making this decision a tough one for the front office. He is due to make $8.5 million next season, the final year of his contract. The Diamondbacks could have bought him out for $2 million, and had until 5 days after the World Series to decide.

Welcome back, Webb!!

Just a quick note or two to add - I'll talk more about it in tomorrow's weekly recap. I liked Nick Piecoro's way of describing it: "The worst-case scenario of exercising it was way better than the worst-case scenario of declining it. Same with the best-case scenario. They might not feel 100 percent confident that he’ll return to form, but it’s a risk that’s worth taking." And speaking of risk, here's a quote from Josh Byrnes that expands a bit on the team's reasoning

There's risk in everything. With the last three months I think some of the risk has been reduced because the surgery went well and Webby's really responded well. I think there's a lot of reward. I mean, you're talking about one of the best pitchers in baseball, so as we made that decision, in our mind, the reward was greater than the risk

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FIVE OUT OF FIVE SNAKEPIT WRITERS AGREE

USE TRIDENT

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by soco on Nov 6, 2009 12:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Oh

and I think this is for the best.

I am Shiva the Destroyer, your harbinger of doom this evening.

by soco on Nov 6, 2009 12:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

probably had to wait on

the sign off from the team Dentist for the fianl go-ahead.

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by piratedan7 on Nov 6, 2009 12:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Naw

They were just waiting to see what the Snakepit thought.

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by kishi on Nov 6, 2009 1:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Great news

Hopefully he can return to his CY Young Award form.

by Pyromnc on Nov 6, 2009 12:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Good news. Let’s hope our boy is healthy, now.

"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. " ~Greg, age 8

by njjohn on Nov 6, 2009 1:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Tracy

I saw they offical bought out Tracy as well. That leave Byrnes as the big quesiton mark now right?

by Spaghetti_Monster on Nov 6, 2009 2:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Well, EByrnes is going to be paid $11M by someone in 2010. Either the Dbacks pay him $11M to be a reserve, or they let him go and still pay him $11M, or they find some team to trade for him, maybe in exchange for another bad contract.

by Amit on Nov 6, 2009 3:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Now we need to get our 4 and 5 starters figured out.

Because this is Arizona.

by damdrs1717 on Nov 6, 2009 2:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I was jsut reading some stuffs on this

If we’re doing horrible next year and Webby’s as solid as we hope, how would you all feel about dealing him for some top prospects or something?

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by Wailord on Nov 7, 2009 6:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Make that

just reading.

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by Wailord on Nov 7, 2009 6:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yup… it’s a real possibility.

"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. " ~Greg, age 8

by njjohn on Nov 7, 2009 7:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Sadly, makes sense

No point running out the string for nothing, especially since I think all we’d get if we held on to him might be a Type B pick, since they go on stats from the past two years (which would then include his wasted 2009). I’ve little doubt he’d be of great interest to a contender. I can see us getting a Cliff Lee-like haul for him – the Indians seemed to do pretty well from the Phillies there.

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by Jim McLennan on Nov 8, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs