Should We Go After Kazmir?

News is that the Rays are shopping Scott Kazmir to try and cut payroll so they can make a big move, and they called the Mets.

Kazmir owns hte Rays/Devil Rays record books in about every major pitching stat, and was as we know, was infamously traded to the Devil Rays in 2004 for Victor Zambrano, when the Mets front office had the false idea that they had a shot at the playoffs. Now we can undo that past mistake, and might be able to do it cheaply. When a team is attpempting to dump salary they will trade players for a lot less value than they could get, and maybe we could get him for Jonathon Niese or Ruben Tejeda?

Many have questioned his make-up this year, but I do not think that there is any significant problem there, and it is just a reason for the Rays to tell their fans they are trading the best pitcher in franchise history.

He is 5-6 this year with a 6.22 ERA, which is not very good, and his BABIP is right around his career norm at .315 (his career average is .318), so it means he is not getting unlucky, but he is not getting lucky, which troubles me, but I looked deeper and found hope. He has a BB/9 ratio of 4.31, which is only a little above his career average of 4.18, and his K/9 is 7.99, which is down from his career average, and is why he has struggled, so if Kazmir can get more balls his softly in play, or less balls in play he will improve.