The Nationals have released righty Taylor Jordan, as MLB.com’s Bill Ladson tweets. His 40-man spot will go to top prospect Lucas Giolito, who’ll make his debut tonight.
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Jordan had been shelved after undergoing his second Tommy John surgery. While that made a 60-day DL placement appear to be a viable strategy for freeing a roster spot, the club evidently decided it was time to cut ties altogether.
That’s a disappointing outcome given the promise that Jordan showed back in 2013, when he posted a 3.66 ERA over 51 2/3 innings. Over those nine starts, he ran up a 57.5% groundball rate and 5.1 K/9 against 1.9 BB/9.
Jordan was able to post over 100 solid frames last year at Triple-A, and was off to a nice start in three outings in 2016. Then came the diagnosis of another ulnar collateral ligament tear, with Jordan undergoing surgery in late May.
Hopefully the Orioles could find a way to add Jordan. He can’t be worse than throwing out there Wilson and Ubaldo 2/5 days
Pretty sure he’s recovering from tommy John so idk if he’s even available to pitch this year at all.
Your correct idk how I missed that. Wonder why they didn’t just 60 day DL him instead.
Nationals have a lot of arms. Probably didn’t see a need to keep him around. Always the possibility of bringing him back when he heals.
Is he really related to Michael Jordan?
It is always sad to see promising players go down due to injury