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Rockies Designate Jamie Moyer For Assignment

By Russ Oates
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Jamie Moyer's days as a member of the Colorado Rockies had been counting down ever since he made the team out of spring training, and on Wednesday afternoon that counter reached zero. According to Tracy Ringolsby, the Rockies have designated the 49-year-old lefty for assignment:

This really doesn't come as a surprise after he struggled mightily through May. He was 1-3 with an 8.64 ERA in five starts/25 innings pitched for the month. He most recently allowed four home runs to the Cincinnati Reds in a 7-5 loss on Sunday.

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2012 - Jamie Moyer 2-5 10 10 0 0 0 0 53.2 75 40 34 11 18 36 5.70 1.73

Moyer was scheduled to start on Friday, but his replacement has yet to be named. Carlos Torres is back in the majors until then.

It appears that Torres is not subject to the 10-day rule following his call-up for the Monday doubleheader and subsequent send-down.

As many of us read in Dave Krieger's piece from today, O'Dowd spoke frankly about Moyer:

"I knew this was going to be a transition year," O'Dowd said. "I never expected Jamie Moyer would last till June. We just looked at him as a guy to give us probably 10 starts at most until we could transition to someone else.

Well, he fell a couple of days short of that.

It was a good try by Moyer and we certainly wish him nothing but the best in what happens for him next.

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