Here are the day’s minor moves:
- Righty Vin Mazzaro has accepted an outright assignment with the Giants after clearing waivers, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on Twitter. Mazzaro, who was recently designated for assignment after a dreadful outing, would have had the option of declining the assignment given his prior outrights and service time. Instead, the 29-year-old will head to Triple-A, where he’ll wait for another major league opportunity. He was solid there in the early going this season, allowing just one earned run in 14 1/3 innings prior to his brief call-up.
Remember when Mazzaro, Cahill, and Anderson were billed the “next Big 3” for Oakland? How time flies..
Gio was in that group..
Mazzaro has three relief appearances where he gave up seven earned runs or more:
May 16, 2011: 2.1 IP, 11 H, 3 BB, 2 stolen bases against, 14 R (all earned)
Jun 22, 2012: 1.1 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 1 HBP, 2 stolen bases against, 7 R (all earned)
May 5, 2016, 0.1 IP, 6 H, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 9 R, 7 ER, 2 inherited runners scored
Mazzaro has a miserable 4.82 ERA over 383 IP. Take out those four awful innings and their 28 ER, his career ERA drops to a somewhat respectable 4.20.
He rolled up 13.7% of his career runs in only 4 innings (a mere 1.04% of his career innings).