Jamie Moyer: Eastbound and Down

The saga continues: Jamie Moyer's incredible career lives on with another stint on the East coast. After he got cut by the Rockies, the Baltimore Orioles quickly swooped in and signed him to a minor-league deal.

I've got to say, when he got cut, I panicked about as hard as Moyer does when there's no Advil around for the pain. I should've never doubted his staying power!

That's not an actor for the inevitable Lifetime made-for-TV movie about Moyer's career. That's Jamie Moyer.

Now remember, Acolytes: it takes a while to recover from Tommy John. It typically takes about a year on the DL, then another year of consistent play to regain strength and fine tune the mechanics to where they were. With a 49 year old body's reduced restorative powers, we're probably looking at a 3 or 4 year recovery before we see Moyer return to the ERA in the upper 4's that earned him a .500 winning percentage for the Phillies. But fear not: the renaissance is coming...