The Blue Jays shored up their rotation by signing right handed starter Tomo Okha to a one year deal for $1.5 million. Okha has been around but his last really good year was back in 2002 with the Expos. He was solid in 2005 but 2006 didn’t quite go as well and he missed a lot of time due to a shoulder injury. He does have a career 4.04 ERA though and while he doesn’t strikeout a ton of guys, he doesn’t walk many either. He’ll definitely be tested though, because he’ll be throwing a few games against both the Red Sox and the Yankees but for a back of the rotation starter, I like him and think he’ll end up being a bargain.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I agree that Tomo could turn out to be a bargain. He doesn’t come without risk, but it’s true that he pitched pretty well for the Nats and just didn’t get any run production behind him. He just might turn out to be the sleeper signing of the off-season.