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Minor Moves: Hill, O’Sullivan, Sale, Daley, Gimenez, Thomas

By Steve Adams | August 12, 2014 at 6:41pm CDT

Here are today’s minor moves …

  • The Tigers inked right-hander Shawn Hill to a minor league deal today, as James Wagner of the Toledo Blade reports on Twitter. Hill, 33, has seen mostly scattered MLB action since taking 28 starts for the Nationals over the 2007-08 seasons. He has a 4.87 ERA through 105 1/3 innings (4.7 K/9 against 2.2 BB/9) in the upper minors this year with the White Sox and Blue Jays organizations.
  • The Phillies have outrighted Sean O’Sullivan to Triple-A, according to the International League transactions page. The righty accepted a previous outright assignment earlier this year, but will once again have the right to elect free agency instead.
  • Rays prospect Josh Sale has been hit with a 50-game suspension for recreational drug use, MLB announced today. This is hardly the first brush with trouble for the 23-year-old former first-round pick, who came into the 2013 season rated Tampa’s 24th-best prospect by Baseball America. After a previous drug-related suspension, Sale missed all of last year when the team banned him for inappropriate conduct. He had slashed .238/.313/.344 over 361 plate appearances on the year at the High-A level.
  • After reporting earlier today that Matt Daley has accepted an outright assignment from the Yankees, MLB Daily Dish’s Chris Cotillo tweets that Daley has actually been optioned by the club. The righty still occupies a 40-man spot.
  • Catcher Chris Gimenez has accepted an outright assignment from the Rangers rather than electing free agency, tweets John Blake, the club’s executive VP of communications. The 31-year-old was designated for assignment five days ago, and apparently has not found a better opportunity with another organization.
  • The Phillies have released outfielder Clete Thomas, Cotillo tweets. The 30-year-old has seen 794 MLB plate appearances in parts of four seasons, but had not been elevated by Philadelphia this season. Over 226 minor league plate appearances, he carries a .247/.345/.335 slash.

Earlier Updates

Baseball America’s Matt Eddy has posted his weekly look at minor league transactions from around the league from the past seven days. We’ll highlight a couple of the (relatively) notable names that were missed in the past week:

  • Eddy reports that the Cardinals have released southpaw Pedro Feliciano from his minor league deal. The 37-year-old, once an excellent setup man with the Mets, pitched to a 5.57 ERA with 8.1 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 in 21 frames with Triple-A Memphis this season.
  • The Reds have released left-hander Scott Maine, Eddy reports. The former Cub was inked to a minor league deal in June after pitching well for the independent Atlantic League’s Bridgeport Bluefish, but he posted a 6.10 ERA in 10 1/3 innings with the Reds organization.
  • The Athletics have released first baseman/third baseman B.A. Vollmuth, tweets Eddy. Vollmuth, a third-rounder as recently as 2011, batted just .207/.278/.341 this season at Class A Beloit. The 24-year-old has yet to move above the Class-A Advanced level and a has a .702 OPS in his pro career.
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Cincinnati Reds Detroit Tigers New York Yankees Oakland Athletics Philadelphia Phillies St. Louis Cardinals Tampa Bay Rays Texas Rangers Transactions Chris Gimenez Clete Thomas Josh Sale Matt Daley Pedro Feliciano Scott Maine Sean O'Sullivan Shawn Hill

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  1. Chioakcisco

    9 years ago

    The B.A. stands for bad average.

    Reply
  2. connfyoozed .

    9 years ago

    I guess that for Feliciano, no one could “light his fire”

    Reply
  3. DippityDoo

    9 years ago

    That Sale kid is an odd ball. Better get it together or the dream, will stay a dream.

    Reply
    • Dynasty22

      9 years ago

      Seems like he has some “clouded” judgement.

      Reply
      • DippityDoo

        9 years ago

        Nice!

        Reply
  4. SUNTV

    9 years ago

    by mid-September, the Tigers rotation:
    1-porcello 2-shawn hill 3- buck farmer 4- coke 5- donald kelly

    Reply
  5. bobbybaseball

    9 years ago

    Sale at the “High”-A level indeed.

    Reply
  6. Matt Musal

    9 years ago

    My Rays need to just get rid of Josh Sale, there is no need to keep him around when you can’t trust or believe in him anymore. The kid is ruining his career.

    Reply

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