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AL Notes: Nolasco, Wren, Dipoto, Walker

By charliewilmoth and Steve Adams | September 25, 2015 at 4:14pm CDT

The Twins have announced that they’ve reinstated starting pitcher Ricky Nolasco from the 60-day DL and cleared space for him on their 40-man roster by placing lefty Logan Darnell (pneumonia) on the 60-day DL. Nolasco has not pitched since May, having missed most of the season with a right ankle impingement. He had surgery on his ankle in July to remove a bone fragment. Nolasco won’t return to his usual starting role — instead, he’ll pitch in relief for the remainder of the season, as MLB.com’s Rhett Bollinger reports. His return gives him the opportunity to end a second straight disappointing year on a positive note. He’s almost halfway through his four-year, $49MM deal with the Twins (which includes a club option for 2018), and he’s now posted ERAs of 5.38 in 2014 and 5.51 in 32 2/3 innings this year.

  • The Red Sox’ new front office alignment — featuring Frank Wren as senior VP of baseball ops and reporting to president of baseball ops Dave Dombrowski — can work, opines Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bradley notes that Wren had a tendency to be impulsive, but Dombrowski will rein in his reactionary impulses. Additionally, Bradley believes that Wren has a knack for scrounging for relievers and bench pieces, which can be of benefit to Boston. While he acknowledges that his defending of Wren is unpopular among Braves faithful (the Dan Uggla and Melvin Upton Jr. contracts still sting), Bradley adds that Wren never lost 90 games in a season with the Braves, who actually led the National League in victories from 2010-14 with Wren serving as GM.
  • Dombrowski says that he would love to add Jerry Dipoto to the Red Sox front office in a full-time capacity, but he’s presently waiting for the jobs for which Dipoto has applied to be resolved, tweets Brian MacPherson of the Providence Journal. Dipoto, who is currently an adviser with the Red Sox, is known to have interviewed for the Mariners’ GM vacancy and was reported to be one of two finalists earlier today.
  • The Mariners aren’t completely ruling out the possibility that Taijuan Walker could make another start, but his season is likely over, Bob Dutton of the Tacoma News Tribune writes. Walker isn’t hurt, but the Mariners want to be careful about his workload — he’s pitched 169 2/3 innings with the M’s this season after only pitching 129 innings total split between the Majors, the minors and the Arizona Fall League last year. “Ensuring that he’s healthy and goes into next season feeling good about what he’s accomplished this year, that outweighed everything else,” says manager Lloyd McClendon. If Walker’s season is over, it was a solid first full year in the big leagues for the former top prospect — he posted a 4.56 ERA, 8.3 K/9 and 2.1 BB/9 overall, but rebounded from a bumpy April and May to post a 3.26 ERA, 8.4 K/9 and just 1.2 BB/9 in his last 20 starts.
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  1. Karkat

    5 years ago

    It’s rein-in Wren, hallelujah

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    • Steve Adams

      5 years ago

      This is an A+ comment.

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  2. bradthebluefish

    5 years ago

    If Dombroski can utilize Wren for what he’s best for (bench, drafting, bullpen) – and keep him at bay at his reactionary and free-agent signing ways – then this was a great signing.

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  3. ianthomasmalone

    5 years ago

    DD should move the FO to Nantucket and call it the Island of Misfit Executives.

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  4. Mookie's Lip

    5 years ago

    Here’s to making the Red Sox the most top heavy team in baseball. Are there any other ex-GM’s looking for jobs? Maybe we can create and entire series of vice presidents. Vice President of bullpen operations, Vice President of water bubbler operations, Vice President of the redundancy department…the options are endless.

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    • start_wearing_purple

      5 years ago

      Well the Vice President in charge of water bubblers will have to be a local guy or else he’ll have no clue what his job is.

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  5. fireboss

    5 years ago

    It’s true Wren never lost 90 games but most years his teams played in a weak division. What he did do was so badly hamstring the Braves payroll that radical surgery was required to excise the tumor he created before it killed the team. He also dismantled one of the best pitching development systems in baseball, drove scouts who had been with the team a long time away and generally micromanaged the system to death.
    As a gopher he’s ok but never let him be lead dog. The view for others if that happens isn’t pleasant.

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