Chacon, who has pitched in mediocre fashion for the Rockies, Pirates, Yankees and Astros, was dropped from the rotation last week, hardly a disservice to a guy with a 2-3 record against a 5.04 ERA/1.51 WHIP with 53 strikeouts, 41 walks and 16 HRs in only 85 IP. He set a record for nine straight no-decisions to start the year, a mark that reflects his own inconsistency and the Astros' awful bullpen.
Sidney Ponson
26 June 2008
cking your boss on his tail--this is, in fact, a level of personality abnormality so deep that even Sidney Ponson hasn't plumbed it.
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19 June 2008
As I remarked in my blog when he was released, Sidney Ponson has brought his teams little but grief to go with his occasionally adequate pitching. When the Rangers released him, I’d hoped that would be the last of Sir Sidney.
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7 June 2008
1.56 WHIP) and designated him for assignment, essentially dropping him off the team.
That guy is Sidney Ponson, and anyone who knows his name can suspect the reason for such a move. Sidney has been a magnet for problems, egotism, and general mischief-making throughout his MLB career. In 2004, he was arrested in his native Aruba for assaulting a judge; in 2005, he was twice arrested for DUI offenses, spending five days in jail for one of them. The Orioles released him, citing his contract's morals clause, and Ponson bounced around the league, bumbling from the Cards to the Yanks to the Twins before landing with a thump in Texas this spring.
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