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I understand the Detroit Tigers have a lot of money to spend this offseason. But there is a smart way to spend that money and there is a moronic way of spending it.

Spending over $15 million on a 33-year-old middle reliever, who didn’t even pitch in 2009 is a moronic way of spending money.
The Tigers signed RHP Joaquin Benoit on Wednesday to a three-year, $16.5 million contract. Benoit can earn another $1 million a year if he makes certain incentives.

This is the type of contract that gets a GM fired.

Benoit was a ham n’ egger up until last year and He missed the entire 2009 season recovering from rotator cuff surgery. Then out of nowhere, Benoit had a spectacular 2010 season for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Benoit tossed to a 1.34 ERA, 0.68 WHIP, 11.2 K’s/9, 1.6 BB/9, and 38.9 percent groundball rate in 60.1 IP. Those are some impressive numbers by anyone’s standards.

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