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Blue Jays Designate Darin Mastroianni For Assignment

By Tim Dierkes | February 1, 2012 at 12:34pm CDT

The Blue Jays announced they’ve designated outfielder Darin Mastroianni for assignment to open a 40-man roster spot for reliever Francisco Cordero, whose one-year, $4.5MM deal was officially announced.

Mastroianni, 26, hit .268/.353/.377 in 562 plate appearance last year across Double and Triple-A, making his big league debut for one game in August.  Mastroianni mostly played center and left field in the minors.

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  1. Matt

    11 years ago

    Okay.

    Reply
  2. iains

    11 years ago

    Well down the depth chart, upside would be 4th outfielder

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    • vilifyingforce

      11 years ago

      It is, still would have liked to have seen him be given a shot though.

      Reply
  3. popular_mechanics_for_pitchers

    11 years ago

    Damn

    Reply
  4. Jose_Bautista

    11 years ago

    Jays have too many OF coming up.

    Gose would be ready well before Rasmus’s FA and Marisnick would be knocking the door soon after. Nice depth at CF.

    Reply
  5. johnsmith4

    11 years ago

    But…but….but…he would have made the team’s Top 30 prospect list if Toronto didn’t do a good job of drafting and trading for top prospect the last two seasons.

    Reply
  6. cyberboo

    11 years ago

    That was a no brainer and he was way down in the rankings list, where he wasn’t close to outperforming Marisnick, Gose, Sierra, etc.  I’m sure another team will give him a chance, but as a defensive player only, with few offensive tools, it was just a matter of time before the team would let him go.

    Reply
  7. Paragon Of Virtue

    11 years ago

    At least he still has his gig in the Zit Remedy with Snake and Wheels

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    • James KFireman

      11 years ago

      Wheels only gets to play if they’re doing the penitentiary circuit

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    • popular_mechanics_for_pitchers

      11 years ago

      Degrassi jokes are timeless haha

      Reply
  8. johnsmith4

    11 years ago

    Still might want to keep him around for the 1st half of the season as “depth”.  This avoids rushing Anthony Gose onto the 40-man roster because of an injury on the Blue Jays and then eating one of his three seasons of optional assignments when the injured player returns.

    The Jays could have used a “Darin Mastroianni” on their roster when they rushed Travis Snider to the majors.  If they did, Snider might have more than one season of optional assignments remaining.

    Let’s hope with Gose, AA doesn’t repeat JPR’s mistake with Snider.

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  9. Dave Deboer

    11 years ago

    AA will flip him to somebody in the next week for some low level player who will become an all-star.  It’s just how AA works.

    Reply
  10. Runtime

    11 years ago

    oh well.

    Reply
  11. bo

    11 years ago

    You would think this guy was competing against Future Hall of Famers.

    Reality is – McCoy stinks – Davis stunk – Rasmus stunk – Snider stunk.

    And in 2012 – we get to watch it all over again. Welcome to Blue Jay world.

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  12. Max Yarnovich

    11 years ago

    chad beck is worse than mastroani cut him from the team

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  13. Max Yarnovich

    11 years ago

    chad beck is worse than mastroani cut him from the team

    Reply
  14. Bobby Lipovsky

    11 years ago

    Too bad.I hope he catch’s on somewhere.He could become another Reed Johnson.Still,the Jays are cheap,keep B.S,en us.Worst owners in baseball are here.Beeston looks like he just got out of bed,wrinkled suits,messy hair,hungover.Why dosen’t somebody dress him up?Everybody in that Organizations looks”cheap”.Too bad Bell didn’t own the team.

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