The latest minor moves from around MLB…
- The Yankees have released Jack Cust, reports Donnie Collins of The Scranton Times-Tribune (on Twitter). The 33-year-old hit .249/.400/.475 with 20 homers, 81 walks, and 127 plate appearances for their Triple-A affiliate this season.
- The Yankees have also released outfielders Colin Curtis and Ray Kruml according to Collins. The 27-year-old Curtis hit .186/.250/.288 in 64 plate appearances with New York in 2010
- The Yankees released outfielder Dewayne Wise yesterday, according to the team’s website. The Yankees designated Wise for assignment and outrighted him to Triple-A in July, but the 34-year-old refused the team’s outright assignment. Wise, a left-handed hitter, posted a .262/.286/.492 batting line in 63 plate appearances with New York.
If Wise had been a little more patient I bet he would have been pulled back up to the big league club when rosters expand. He was doing a really good job. Could’ve had a good chance at a ring. Oh well. I guess it’s better to not be playing at all.
He’s 34. I doubt he wants to rot in the minors when he can be used as a back-up for another team.
But what team? The Phillies, who just traded two outfielders and are going nowhere? At 34, how many more chances is a career 4th outfielder going to get at getting a ring? You play to win. Unless he’s foolish blown his salaries, money isn’t an issue for him at this point.
I don’t think he earned much during his career. Much more than we’ll ever see but still not much for MLB player.
BR has his career earnings at $1,075,000. Certainly not a lot for a baseball player, but if he was smart with his money it is a good start. Not enough to live off forever, but decent living while he was playing.
If you count tax and cost of living plus the fact that he didn’t go to college after being drafted (in 97) he better have invested smart or he might be in trouble.
Maybe BR should have put (may be incomplete) in big bold letters.
$1,075,000 is his total for 2000, 2004 and 2009.
Judging by the number of games he’s played during the other seasons, even at a prorated amount of the league minimum I’d say he’s made twice that figure at the very least, most likely more.
Cole Hamels sneezed at 1:45 pm EST today. It cost the Phillies $1.075m.
@Brandon Emerick
Wise played fairly well with the Yanks after a dreadful start. He actually contributed to a couple of wins and did everything that was asked of him.
He lost his job to an over-the hill brand name, which is understandable, but nevertheless unfair. He deserves the opportunity to call his own shots as to where he may want to play.
Good Luck Dewayne.
White Sox should consider. AAA though.
Mark Buehrle can give him a place to stay until he gets back on his feet.
Reds need a left handed bat Jocketty bring him home!!
Curtis Kruml and Wise can’t hit, Cust can’t field, so what are ya looking for here?
Cust for pinch-hitter.
Wow, did Jack Cust ever take that many walks in his life? That’s crazy.
So I guess clicking on his name to see that he had 105,111, and 93 walks from 2007-9 was too much to ask …
woo, 3 years in his career, whoop-de-do. Hasn’t done much since but K
I didn’t say it was impressive … Seriously, that dense?
And actually, he’s maintained his high walk rates (16.3% in 2011 w/ SEA) but his power disappeared last year.
guys it is just Jack Cust, calm down
Ehem… Safeco destroys careers. From journeymen AAAA players to highly-touted prospects (Smoak)
he’s a prototypical TTO hitter. Most of his offensive game is walks, Ks, and HRs.
A poor man’s Adam Dunn.
A very very poor, destitute man. They should never be mentioned in the same sentence. Cust had one good year in oakland and then proceeded to walk-troll for the next 4 to inflate his OBP. The most common sight there was watching clean-up hitting Cust take a strike three with the tying and winning runs aboard.
Wow, we are really cleaning house today..
I’m sure Duquette has Cust on speed dial, he has a thing for DH’s and players that should be DH’s
Dewayne Wise is the only of them that I see landing somewhere else, as a left-handed bat off the bench for the rest of the season (which I see as being his last). He was really the victim of the Ichiro Suzuki trade.
I’m sure ESPN will dedicate twenty minutes strictly for Yankees minor league moves. Jack Cust is the epitome of why walks contributing to OPS+ are overrated. So what if he’s on first if it takes a homer or at least two hits to drive his slow butt in.
When you can’t make the Astros, your career is over.