The Braves finished up with their arbitration eligible players yesterday when they signed Oscar Villareal to a one year, $925,000 deal. Villareal was a workhorse out of the pen and threw 92 1/3 innings, including filling in with four starts. His walk rate was pretty good but his homerun rate was kind of high. Still, a 1.30 from a reliever who’s good for close to 100 innings is well worth almost a million, at least these days. Villareal didn’t have much of a platoon split although he did throw much better on the road then he did at home.
Solid signing though, and one more cog in a bullpen that should be better then the previous couple of years.
