Again, they like Brasier because of his low bb rate and believe his end of the season turnaround will bleed into this season. I'm not entirely sold on it. I don't think there's a lot of upside with him and at $2M you may as well just move on IMO.
With Ort, I guess he has options and throws hard? He has experience closing games in AAA? IDK. I would have dumped him before some of the recent DFA's for sure.
I guess we all have our Julio Lugos.