I was intrigued by the possibility of Tim Beckham (which Josh Maduell wrote up here) and Domingo Santana, but I decided to go for the guy that I had been pining for all winter, relief pitcher Hunter Strickland.
Why a reliever you might ask? Hunter Strickland isn’t just a reliever, he’s an attitude. It’s been well documented during his career that Strickland has had a few momentary lapses of judgment. From igniting a brawl with Bryce Harper to punching a door and breaking his hand, Strickland shows something that the bullpen badly needed after trading Edwin Diaz to the Mets: fire.