The Red Sox have released veteran reliever Casey Janssen, as per the International League’s official transactions page. Today was the day that Janssen could opt out of his minor league deal with the Sox, Brendan McGair of the Pawtucket Times reported (Twitter links), and the righty elected to look for an opportunity with another team.
Janssen has signed minor league contracts with Boston and San Diego in 2016 but has yet to appear in the majors this season. He posted solid numbers at the Triple-A and low-A levels for the Sox, delivering a 2.87 ERA, 6.9 K/9 and 3.00 K/BB rate over a combined 15 2/3 innings at both levels.
Best known as a longtime fixture in the Blue Jays bullpen, Janssen served as Toronto’s closer from 2012-14 before losing the job after struggling in the latter half of the 2014 season (due in part to an illness picked up during an All-Star break vacation). He posted a 4.95 ERA over 40 IP out of the Nationals bullpen in 2015 as his fastball velocity and ground ball rate declined for the second straight season.
Welcome back to the blue jays
Ummm… No.
I’m a Sox fan and I honestly didn’t even realize we had this guy in our minors.
Same, and frankly I would have rather we rolled the dice on him in our bullpen, instead of trading for Abad.
Funny you should say that just as Abad finished pitching a clean inning against the Dodgers.
He faced two sub-mediocre hitters and real good hitter, who was having a real bad day. My original statement stands.
Abad was one of the best pickups at the deadline reliever wise. You’re a moron
Wonder why we used Noe Ramirez and not him
He’ll definitely land on someone else’s roster. Really surprised Boston didn’t give him a shot.
It’s to bad for Jansen he was dominating in 2014 and then lost 5 pounds in like 4 days I think and it was all down hill from there.
Turn out the lights the party is over….does anyone really think we can win 32-52 down the stretch? Time for Hanley and Papi to work on there dance moves in the dugout…and the 2016 theme for this team is straight out of the Price is right hand book… Underachieve
This is just another Bridge Year until Moncada is ready to play 3rd base and Edwin takes over as DH replacing Big Papi.
I saw he pitch in Pawtucket and he didn’t have much left in the tank just last week.
Casey go to the White Sox might have to do a minor league deal but next spring work hard lets make it work