Delcarmen meets up with new teammates

DENVER (AP)—The Colorado Rockies returned home Thursday to play a makeup game with the Philadelphia Phillies and pick up their newest teammate, Manny Delcarmen(notes).
The hard-throwing right-handed reliever met up with his bleary-eyed teammates at Coors Field two days after the Rockies acquired him from the Boston Red Sox for minor league pitcher Chris Balcom-Miller.
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the team,” Delcarmen said.
Rather than have him fly all the way to San Francisco, the Rockies had Delcarmen meet them in Denver, where they had to make up a May rainout with the Phillies before flying back to California for a crucial three-game set against the NL West-leading San Diego Padres.
The 28-year-old Delcarmen was 3-2 with a 4.70 ERA in 48 games for Boston this season. He was a key member of the Red Sox bullpen for several years, and pitched in Boston’s sweep of Colorado in the 2007 World Series.
He was a fixture on Boston’s bullpen since 2006 but has struggled at times the last two seasons for his hometown team. Boston general manager Theo Epstein said earlier this week: “Manny wasn’t necessarily pitching in the highest leverage situations with us anymore. We had a couple of guys that passed him on the depth chart.”
Delcarmen said he was nevertheless stunned when informed of cheap authentic jerseys
the trade.
“Honestly, I didn’t even know what to say when they told me. They were like, ‘You have no reaction.’ I was just in shock,” Delcarmen said.
The Rockies have had their eyes on Delcarmen for a long time. When they were talking about trading clubhouse leader Todd Helton(notes) to the Red Sox in January 2007, the talks broke down after Epstein refused to part with Delcarmen and fellow reliever Craig Hansen(notes).
Delcarmen said he was eager to help his new team keep pace in the NL playoff chase.
“I’m feeling fresh,” Delcarmen said.
Delcarmen met with manager Jim Tracy upon his arrival at Coors Field.
“He said, ‘I need you,”’ Delcarmen said. “When I got traded, I was keeping track of them the last couple of days, watching these games and being 4 1/2 back in the wild card, I’m definitely going to come in positive and I’m going to try to help the team out and get where they want to get.”
Tracy said Delcarmen will be used in front of righties Matt Belisle(notes) and Rafael Betancourt(notes).
“It’s a power arm that’s had some success in Boston, which is not the easiest place in the world to pitch with the stress load and everything else that’s on you day-in and day-out pitching for that ballclub—which plays right into what we’re trying to do here year-in and year-out,” Tracy said.
Tracy said he sees Delcarmen being able to solve his command issues much like starter Jorge De La Rosa(notes) did in Denver under the tutelage of pitching coach Bob Apodaca and bullpen coach Jim Wright.
“If there’s one thing that jumps out at you that maybe has been a little problem spot for him is consistency with his command. But it’s 95, 96 mph. It’s a beautiful arm to have in the fifth, sixth inning, so that we don’t continue to ride Belisle down to the 2010 nfl jerseys
point where we have nothing left,” Tracy said.
“I recall Jorge when he wore a different uniform other than the Rockies, command was always his problem. So they solved this equation before.”