The Mariners announced that they have released reliever Shawn Camp. The 36-year-old Dave Meier client had signed a Major League deal worth $750K in February. Seattle now has 38 players on its 40-man roster.
Camp spent the last four seasons with the Blue Jays, and posted a 4.21 ERA with 4.3 K/9, 3.0 BB/9 and a 53.5% groundball rate in 66 1/3 innings a year ago. The Blue Jays did not offer the right-hander arbitration after the season despite his Type B status. Greg Johns of MLB.com first reported the news.
Whoa, thats insane!
Noooooooooo !!!
And this makes the Mariners bullpen better how? The Mariners replace him with whom?
Yikes. Poor guy. Definitely did not deserve that… he’s a fairly serviceable pitcher.
A real class act, too.
I wonder if the Blue Jays bring him back?
Doubt it, they signed much better pitchers in the off season
Sounds like the Mariners had a bad Camp experience
Id like to see him back with the Jays….he’s a quality arm to use as a mid-innings reliever.
Shawn guys was my next door condo neighbour in Toronto. One of the nicest down to earth players i came across. Sorry to hear this for him and family
4.12, 3.50, 2.99, 4.21
his ERAs the last 4 years pitching in the AL east
above average middle reliever
4.68, 7.20, 4.12, 3.50, 2.99, 4.21 – last 6 years in the AL East with TB and TOR.
4.23 over 372.2 IP in that time, so definitely a good piece.
Seattle has a lot younger, better options than him.
Mariners had to do it to make room for Milwood and Kawasaki on the roster because they were brought in on minor league contracts and not on 40 man roster. Still have 8 more moves to make to get ready for trip to Japan.
Jays are full and if i had a second favorite team, i’d hope they pick him up
WoW I’m surprised. He will find work for sure.
I guess i’ll say it again… Now there’s a spot for David Pauley to return. Come on Mariners!
Camp had good Spring traing era was around 2.15 not bad
tigers should bring him in….extra cheap bullpen piece is never bad..oliver and turner havent worked out yet this spring as relievers or starters lol
No there isn’t.
Yes there is.
Camp was technically only signed as insurance for some of the less experienced bullpen arms. Why Z would dish out a major league contract for an insurance arm is beyond me. Since Ruffin, Luetge, and Wilhelmsen all look likely to make the team, there was no need to hold onto Camp. So, to reiterate: no, there is no room on this roster for David Pauley.
One of the better groundball inducing relievers out there. Hopefully he finds work!
I can see the Jays re-picking him up on a minor league deal, doesn’t hurt to have the depth.
Make it nine more moves to cut players so the M’s can still sign either Vladimir Guerrero, Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, or Magglio Ordonez w/ extended Spring Training just like Andy Pettite is doing for the New York Yankees as he came out of retirement if he got bored of not playing baseball for a while. This will be a good move to replace Franklyn Gutierrez on the roster as he’s out for a while w/ an injury he sustained and also better chance to have off the bench to pinch hit late in the game on top of giving Montero at DH or Ichiro a day off at times.