Tyler Walker

Rays Reliever Walker Out For Season

Tampa Bay closer Tyler Walker's run on saves over the past two seasons is over. He will have Tommy John surgery which should keep him out of baseball through the end of next season.

I grabbed him last season based on the Physical Appearance Theory and enjoyed the saves, but missed on him this year despite a lowball FAAB of $7. Another team with better priority bid the same.

But I corrected that by going $9 on Brian Meadows and, listening to Gus the Greek, the Tampa Bay beat writer, on XM Radio's Fanatsy Focus with Jeff Erickson yesterday, I earned there is no one else in the major league 'pen but Meadows.

He also explained away the recent saves by Chad Harville (Meadows had warmed up four straight days and was not going to do so on that 5th day) and Shawn Camp (Rays scored 5 in the 8th so Camp pitched the 9th in order to give-up the prodigous HR to injured All-Star Manny Ramirez.)

So good luck to Tyler Walker. I enjoyed the blogging about him over the past year or so.