Here are today’s minor moves from around the league…
- Baseball America’s Matt Eddy has published his latest round of Minor League Transactions, and within the piece he notes that the Rockies have re-signed Jair Jurrjens to a minor league deal. Additionally, the Royals have re-signed Cuban lefty Noel Arguelles, Jordan Norberto re-signed with the Rays and Russ Canzler is back with the Phillies. Each of these is a minor league deal.
- The Braves have signed right-hander Chien-Ming Wang to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training, according to MLB.com’s Mark Bowman (on Twitter). The Braves are known to be seeking rotation depth, and Wang should provide just that. The former Yankee totaled 172 2/3 innings at the Triple-A level in 2014, posting a 4.12 ERA with 73 strikeouts and 57 walks.
- The Nationals have re-signed right-hander Manny Delcarmen and infielder Emmanuel Burriss to minor league deals with invites to Spring Training, according to MLB.com’s Bill Ladson (Twitter links). Burriss, 30 in January, hasn’t appeared in the Majors since 2012 but batted .300/.377/.412 in 510 Triple-A plate appearances for the Nats this past season. The 32-year-old Delcarmen hasn’t seen big league action since 2010, but he, too, had a strong season at Triple-A Syracuse for the Nats in 2014. Delcarmen posted a 3.13 ERA with 8.2 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 in 60 1/3 innings of relief.
Rather than pay Jed Lowrie $30MM, let’s give a guy like Burriss a chance!
Chien-Ming Wang still breaks my heart.
Hope to see Chien-Ming Wang pitch on the major league level for the Braves next year. He was great for the Yankees until he got hurt.
I’m not at all a Yankees fan, but I find myself pulling for him. He seems like such a tough competitor to me. He didn’t even put up very good AAA numbers last year, but I would love to see him make it back to the bigs and contribute.
I didn’t realize Wang was runner up for CY in ’06. Maybe McDowell can work his magic and make him this year’s Aaron Harang
All he has to do is induce grounders. Simmons will take care of the rest.
Manny Delcarmen is still playing? I figured he’d have retired by now. Hasn’t played in the majors in 4 years.
I guess he’s out of “retirement” to pick up where he left off or worse? The worst thing is I have an autographed baseball from the 2007 World Series from him when he was supposed to keep developing…
I am shocked that the Royals resigned Arguelles but can only imagine it was for peanuts.
that yankees dude we got back sure is telling the Front office to sign NY players.