RANDY CHOATE RUMORS & GOSSIP

The Florida Marlins placed left-hander Randy Choate on the 15-day disabled list because of inflammation in his left elbow. Choate complained of tightness in the elbow after his last outing on Monday and had flown back to Florida to have it examined The Marlins recalled right-hander Chris Hatcher from Double-A Jacksonville to take Choate's roster spot. The 35-year-old...

Left-handed reliever Randy Choate has been sent to Miami by the Marlins to have his elbow examined by team doctors. Choate has told team officials he felt tightness in the elbow after his last outing on Monday night. He faced one batter in the ninth inning and gave up a three-run homer to Jason Giambi in what became a 7-4 loss. Manager Jack McKeon, speaking before Wednesday night...

“Jack McKeon doesn’t care much for percentages and track record,” marvels the Palm Beach Post’s Matt Porter. “He’ll manage by feel, like it or loathe it.”  Prior to Florida’s 4-0 home loss to San Diego — just their 2nd loss in their past 11 games under McKeon, Porter caught up with a victim of the Marlins manager’s inscrutable thought process, lefty Randy Choate...

Manager Jack McKeon has the Florida Marlins winning with the help of some unorthodox moves, and the latest one left reliever Randy Choate miffed. McKeon stopped by Choate's locker before Tuesday night's game to discuss the matter, and they agreed to disagree. ''It's disappointing,'' Choate said. ''But it's his prerogative and his call. He's the manager and I'm the player.'' Choate...

When Randy Choate saw Gaby Sanchez in the clubhouse before Sunday's game against the D-backs, he jokingly accused his teammate of bringing Florida State's baseball team bad luck.

The Mets have missed out on 2 decent relief pitchers over the last week. The Mets offered Randy Choate 1.4M and a boatload of incentives to have him sign with the Mets. So who signs him? The salary challenged Marlins who just last year was spanked for not spending $$ that they get through MLB and other teams.  The 35 year old Choate signed a 2.5M deal to sign with the Marlins in 2011. The

After some confusion, it seems the Marlins have signed lefty reliever Randy Choate to a two-year deal worth $2.5M TOTAL plus incentives in each season. The confusion arose from the wording of Rosenthal’s initial Tweet, which sounded as if it implied a two-year, $5M deal that would have earned my unyielding ire. As it stands, the deal to acquire Choate just ends up being an unexciting...

How bad is Randy Choate?Time to assess the “left specialist” Randy Choate. Choate is one of Maddon’s favorite pitchers and uses him often to get key outs late in games, but most of the time, Choate simply chokes on the mound. With his side arm delivery, Choate often leaves the ball over the plate which only leads to trouble. Let’s take a closer look at the numbers behind...

Yesterday, we expressed our fear that Randy Choate might actually be able to give up a bases-empty grand slam in a 4-run game. Immediately, several commenters came to the defense of Choate, correctly citing his rough April (10.50 ERA) for his ugly 4.42 ERA. One commenter pointed to Choate’s 3.27 FIP as evidence that he has pitched much better than his ERA (click here for an explanation...

Randy Choate pitches in relief for the Tampa Bay Rays. Randy is a left-handed specialist, known as a LOOGY. In 257 games, all in relief, Choate only pitched 201 1/3 innings. The main difference between lefties and righties to Choate shows up in his OBP allowed. Lefties get on base at an anemic [...]