The Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League signed left-hander Lenny DiNardo, the team announced on its website. The Red Sox signed DiNardo to a minor league deal in December and he pitched for Boston this spring, but did not make the club's Opening Day roster.
After signing with the A's last year, the 31-year-old spent the 2010 season in the minors and posted a 3.53 ERA with 5.3 K/9 and 3.5 BB/9 in 51 innings as a starter. DiNardo, who last appeared in the Major Leagues for the 2009 Royals, has experience in parts of six big league seasons. He has a 5.36 ERA with 4.6 K/9 and 4.0 BB/9 in 257 career innings for the Red Sox, A's and Royals.
The Ducks' roster includes former big leaguers Ruddy Lugo, J.R. House, Lew Ford, John Rodriguez and, as of Monday, Duaner Sanchez.
Didn’t Ricky Henderson play for the L.I. Ducks? or am I totally off base there.
He did, I saw him play there…
I believe this post officially makes it a slow news day.
Kind of surprising…?
Fascinating, this is fascinating
That lucky duck.
It seems like 80% of former major leaguers signing in independent leagues, occurs with the Long Island Ducks.
J.R. House’s career has always been an enigma to me.
With all the turds that have managed to leech onto MLB rosters over the years how has a catcher with some pretty decent minor league #’s not gotten more chances at the majors?
I’ve always wondered why the Astros never wanted to give Clemens’ kid a shot with how he rakes in the minors. Sure I doubt he plays great defense and he’s probably a quad A guy but when they are trotting out bums like Quintero and Towels, and they are the Astros, what do they have to lose? Catchers are a weird group.