Jaret Wright Rumors

Pirates Acquire Tyler Yates From Braves

10:23am: Byung-Hyun Kim's gone, in the accompanying move. So is Jaret Wright, according to RotoWorld. 8:40am: Dave O'Brien was right - the Braves chose Tyler Yates as the out of options reliever to deal. They sent him to the Pirates today for a minor league hurler named Todd Redmond. On Monday, O'Brien said he expected the Braves to trade one of Scott Thorman or Brayan Pena as well. Yates, a 30 year-old Hawaiin, has a solid 8.3 per nine innings strikeout rate in his 162 inning career. He needs to work on his control though. Yates was drafted by the...   Continue Reading

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Pirates Sign Jaret Wright

The Pirates signed 32 year-old righty Jaret Wright today to a minor league deal. Seems crazy that Wright is 32 now, we all remember the baby-faced kid in the '97 World Series. Wright gets $800K if he makes the Major League roster and has incentives based on relieving or starting. Obviously Wright needs to get healthy again; he missed most of '07 with shoulder woes. Wright is the poster boy for good timing, signing a three-year, $21MM deal with the Yankees in December of '04 after Leo Mazzone coaxed 15 wins out of him in '03   Continue Reading

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Orioles To Acquire Jaret Wright

The Baltimore Sun reports that the Orioles will acquire Jaret Wright for Chris Britton, pending commissioner approval. Wright, who turns 31 soon, could benefit from a reunion with pitching coach Leo Mazzone. Still, the over/under on his innings pitched is 150. Wright is hard-pressed to make 30 starts or go past five innings in any of those. I would call 2007 a success for him if he posts an ERA below 5. I have my doubts on that. Besides Wright not being very good, another reason I dislike the deal for Baltimore is that they already have a staff of..   Continue Reading

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Orioles Could Trade For Jaret Wright

According to Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun, the Orioles have talked to the Yankees about acquiring 31 year-old righthander Jaret Wright. First the Yankees have to choose whether to buy Wright out for $4MM or pay him $7MM for the 2007 season. If they don't buy him out and do trade him to the Orioles, Wright could be reunited with former Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone. Wright had his only full season success under Mazzone in 2004. Otherwise perhaps the Orioles would just sign Wright to a free agent contract   Continue Reading

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