The Yankees are set to sign righty Sergio Santos to a minor league deal, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports on Twitter. He’ll reportedly head to Double-A.
Santos was designated by the Dodgers and ultimately elected free agency. He put up 13 1/3 innings for Los Angeles, producing a 4.73 ERA while striking out 10.1 and walking 4.7 batters per nine to go with a 46.2% groundball rate. Santos has held righties to a collective .555 OPS this year, though lefties have punished him with a .400/.409/.700 batting line.
New York’s pen has been quite good, though that is due in large part to the unbelievable contributions of Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances. The current relief corps is heavily left-handed, a rather unusual alignment that creates a window of opportunity for the former White Sox and Blue Jays hurler to step into.
Well, this is incredibly unexciting, but I guess considering it’s a minor league deal, it’s hard to care too much about this
If he gets his walk rate down while maintaining his k/BB ratio and his almost 50% gb rate he could be a great find
You mean if he pitches better, he will be a better pitcher?
Well of course lol. I’m just stating that his huge walk rate seems to be his main problem. We all saw what happened to carlos marmol when his really high BB rate caught up to him
The Dodgers’ coaching staff is as good as any in baseball, but they could not cure his wildness.
Can the dodgers fix esmil Rogers ? I would love for la to take him off our hands ^_^
This is the kind of incremental moves that a good manager makes during the season. It doesn’t necessarily excite the casual fan but it can pay off if the player is brought up for a few games to fill a gap and contributes to a win or two or helps avoid a loss. Even the worst team will win about 60 games and even the best team will lose about 60. It’s what happens in those 40 games that are up for grabs that determines who goes to the playoffs and beyond. Little player moves like this can be important and every manager tries to have a few guys like this for the right occasions.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I know this, I’m definitely not mad or anything! Cashman also has Bailey stashed in the minors for the same type of reason, it’s a smart “catch lightning in a bottle” move for sure. It’s just unexciting in the sense that they “need” a RHRP and this doesn’t answer that need immediately. None the less, I won’t be complaining about this
Righty bull-pen arm …good move…
Wonder if we should call him a ROOGY.
going to be tough beating out Burawa, Ramirez, Rumbelow (all righties pitching well in AAA)