In the process of building a bullpen, sometimes a reliever will be acquired who’s a gamble, a signing the GM hopes will strike gold. You might pick up a faded former closer or some meandering journeyman and he’ll discover some old magic he once had or some new grip to make his go-to pitch killer, and suddenly become unhittable. Guys like Jeff Manship, unheralded and “Just Another Name” type of guys who suddenly post numbers thought to befit only gods. They’re usually fun signings for thinking of what could be. The Cleveland Indians did such a thing this winter and suddenly, somehow, Joba Chamberlain is in the Tribe system on a minor league deal.
Cleveland Indians: I Totally Forgot They Signed Joba Chamberlain!
