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Minor Moves: Lendy Castillo, Anthony Varvaro

By Jeff Todd | May 12, 2015 at 9:31pm CDT

We’ll keep up with the minor moves of the day in this post:

  • The Rangers have signed right-hander Lendy Castillo to a minor league pact, reports the Dallas Morning News’ Gerry Fraley (Castillo’s mention is at the bottom of his post). The 26-year-old Castillo tossed 16 innings of relief for the 2012 Cubs, yielding 14 runs with 13 strikeouts against 12 walks. He spent last year with Chicago’s Double-A affiliate, posting a 3.95 ERA with 41 strikeouts in 41 innings. However, Castillo was old for the level and also mixed in an alarming 39 walks. He hasn’t had such pronounced control problems in the past, however, so the Rangers will hope to be able to help him rediscover the ability to throw strikes while maintaining his proclivity for whiffing batters.
  • Righty Anthony Varvaro has cleared outright waivers and is expected to be assigned to the Cubs’ Triple-A affiliate, Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune tweets. Varvaro figures to take up residence as a handy depth option for Chicago, which recently called upon fellow former Braves reliever James Russell after he took a stint in Iowa. In his case, the 30-year-old Varvaro had worked to a 4.09 ERA in 11 frames early in the season with the Red Sox. While that is hardly dominant run prevention, and his 4.9 BB/9 were less than promising, Varvaro has put up good results with solid peripherals over the last several years and is a nice arm to have stashed.
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  1. RippinNTearinAB

    10 years ago

    Dumb Braves are dumb!

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  2. TDKnies

    10 years ago

    There are SO many worse relievers out there. How’d no one grab him? I could probably find AT LEAST one guy on nearly every team that he’s easily better than. His velocity way down or showing scary poor command or something?

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  3. Daniel Morairity

    10 years ago

    How does this help the rangers with that signing I mean come on go get hamels 4 years 90 million tats a huge pickup. Our pitching staff is ok but we need a true ace and hamels fits that subject completely. Trade Ross detwiler and jorge Alfaro to the Phillies for hamels

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