McClung Traded For Balfour

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 27, 2007 10:36 PM EDT Comment 9 comments

Seth McClung has been traded to the Brewers for Grant Balfour.

Balfour, 29, is originally from the Twins organization spent last season recovering from surgery. This year he's recently been with the Nashville Sound his stat line: 32 IP, 17 H, 6 ER, 2 HR, 47 K, 11 BB (no 'ball four' jokes), 4.8 H/9, 0.56 HR/9, 3 BB/9, 13 K/9 (!), a 1.69 ERA and a 0.88 WHIP.

Grant will join the Rays pen tomorrow, with Ryu likely headed to AAA.

Scouting report: (TSN.ca)
Balfour has some good heat, into the mid-90s, and he mixes it with a strong sinker/slider combo. He's a rare righty that's killer against left-handed hitters.

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Re: McClung Traded For Balfour

WOW! This trade floored me

First off, being a native midwesterner and considering I'm on a friendship level with Seth, it's good for me.

It's good for Seth, in the fact that he goes from Xavier Hernandez to Mike Maddux. Awesome news for him.

And for us, Balfour is a pretty decent reliever. He's a bit old(30), but he's probably better than Camp/Stokes/Fossum.

by Jacob Larsen on Jul 27, 2007 10:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Re: McClung Traded For Balfour

This is one of those type deals where we have nothing to lose. If he gives us a decent arm in the pen then it works out great, if he gets rocked we only gave up McClung who was not going to work out for us anyway. Next year I believe we would have to keep him up (McClung) or risk him thru waivers if we tried to send him down.
Coming off Injury Balfour may just need a little big league time to settle down and get in the groove and if there is one thing we have plenty of this year it is the time to see what we have.

SC raysfan

by SC raysfan on Jul 27, 2007 10:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs