The Yankees have released veteran right-hander Nathan Eovaldi, per a club announcement. Also cut loose were southpaw Joe Mantiply and righty Nick Rumbelow. All three pitchers were designated for assignment ten days ago, and obviously no trades or claims were in the offing.
With the move, the 26-year-old Eovaldi will be available to the highest bidder for the first time in his career. It’s surely not how he envisioned reaching free agency — Tommy John and flexor tendon surgery made him a clear non-tender candidate in his final year of arbitration eligibility — and he won’t exactly be lining up a monster payday. But there figure to be plenty of interested teams given his intriguing pitching arsenal and young age.
It’s not yet clear what kind of deal Eovaldi will seek. Some players elect to rehab on their own and then throw before signing, as reliever Greg Holland is doing at present. Others ink multi-year deals that lock in some guaranteed money but provide upside to the signing team, as pitchers such as Kris Medlen have done in recent years.
It’s at least somewhat surprising that New York released Mantiply. He had been claimed off waivers just ten days before he was designated, seemingly suggesting that the organization hoped he’d be a candidate to be stashed upon his removal from the 40-man roster. Instead, the 25-year-old will hit the open market.
Rumbelow also just turned 25. He moved quickly through the minors and had a solid debut in the majors in 2015. But he went down early in the 2016 season and ultimately underwent a TJ procedure of his own. Rumbelow figures to draw interest from organizations intrigued at the possibility of gaining cheap control over a useful reliever in the event that his rehab is successful.
Makes sense. There’s really no reason to keep him around if he’s not going to pitch for the Yankees again before he hits FA.
Can the rest of MLB just agree to let Pittsburgh/Searage have at Eovaldi? There’s no better place for him, and then in 2-3 years he’ll be an ace-level guy that a team can pay lots of money for, everyone wins?
Not the Pirates kind of pitcher. They like sinkerballers, and their specialty is reclaiming bad pitchers, not spending money on waiting for an injured one to heal.
Also, the whole “Ray Searage miracle worker” thing has a sample size of like 3. Several low-budget teams have done similar things with pitchers.
Liriano Volquez Burnett Happ Nova Melancon Blanton Feliz and Nicasio (as a reliever) are all legit ones. Then for different stretches you can argue Wandy, Worley, Bastardo, Caminero, Holdzkom for half a year, and most importantly, Locke, who is a former All star! (ok ok only a little sarcasm with that last one 🙂 )
Uncle Ray the magic man obviously isn’t perfect (see Niese, Jon) but he has a very good success rate. And while it’s true the Pirates like sinker ballers/GB specialists, they don’t limit themselves to just one type.
So Sports Illustrated has no clue and you know better? Okayyyy
There’s dozens of pitchers he’s worked over who were better off after working with him, facts.
JA Happ quit throwing hard due to him, and Eovaldi should too.
How about the argument that most of the pitchers that Searage “revived” simply switched leagues. Lot easier getting 18 or 19 outs in a game versus 22 or 23. Or working out of a inning with a free out from the pitcher batting.
Happ, Volquez, Nova, Malencon (kinda) is all I could really name off my head tbh
Still he’s revolutionized their careers.
I was hoping the angels could sign him, they need another power arm
Also Burnett
you say that about 95% of players
AJ Burnett
I don’t know how may of these guys you can legitimately say searage was the solution but there’s happ, Nova, liriano, volquez, grilli, maybe melancon?
Melancon had a 6 era in boston before coming to the pirates I’m pretty sure he definitely helped him.
He had an ERA below 3 the previous year… Something was clearly wrong in Boston. You could definitely say Searage helped him, but he wasn’t working with an actually garbage 6 ERA pitcher.
I wouldn’t put nova in that group, I know he said he changed some things when he got to the pirates but don’t forget nova was not a bad pitchers at all with the Yankees, and was the game 1 starter in the 2012 playoffs, he wasn’t very good coming back from Tj but I don’t think Pittsburgh is the reason, many times with the Yankees would he go through stretches where he seems ace like
Agree…you beat me to it. What is it….4 years in a row?
How exactly do you come to the determintion that Evoldi will be an “ACE TYPE” of starter in a few years?
Please share.
Really good fastball, decent off speeds just needs to learn how to harness his heat and work on control.
I feel if Eovaldi stopped throwing triple digits and focused on his out pitches he would be a way better starter as a result. The thing is the Marlins, Dodgers and Yankees all pressured him to be that “big guy who throws 100” there are 3 ways a player can go with that trajectory: Justin Verlander, Aroldis Chapman, or a 7/11 employee.
I mean really, he needs to learn how to pitch, not just throw the ball willy nilly, he only racks up wins due to his amazing run support numbers considering his lifetime ERA is above 4
The most frequent comment and complaint about Eovaldi is the low spin rate on all of his pitches. A fastball with a low spin rate doesn’t move that much and is just begging to be crushed even if it’s 98 mph.
His control is fine, he doesn’t walk many, and he locates well. But with little or flat movement on his pitches he’s hittable for most MLB players. What I can’t believe is that with all of the articles and TV analysis of his low spin rate that he doesn’t seem to have made improving that a priority in his development. Perhaps his past injury history scared him off. But a lot of good that did.
A career 3 BB9 is alright I guess not desireable, he also has a sub 7 SO9 too
He’s averaged around 40 walks a season and hit 7 hitters just 2 years ago so idk
Bosio in ChiC can work magic too.
Orioles should get Eovaldi.. McDowell does well with reclamation projects
Good call.
I was thinking the exact same thing, that would be great for the Orioles.
Evoldi has Oakland A’s written all
Over him
I made this exact comment on Twitter. Seems like too perfect a match.
No better place than Oakland to rebuild value. Maybe a possibility? Hmm…
Resign with Yankees cheaper.. 2 year deal
Padres. If they gave josh johnson all that money might as well sign eovaldi
The angels should go after Eovaldi, they need another power arm, He should be pretty cheap
Even injured Eovaldi still ranks about 3rd in the Yankees rotation
The Mets should sign Evaldi, he could step right into Colon’s spot. With his stuff he’d probably be better in the NL.
except he can’t pitch this year
except he can’t pitch this year and he’s also already pitched in the NL, 2011-2014.
He probably won’t pitch again till the middle of 2018
If the Mets sign a pitcher to replace Colon, it should be a steady veteran like Colon. Not an injury plagued reclamation project.
Wow. Could be a blessing in disguise of sorts. 2 years/16 million wouldn’t be out of the question given the thin market. He wasn’t bad with the Marlins, I wonder if they’ll pick him back up.
I’d love for the Braves to offer something and see if they could get something decent from him if they traded Dickey or Colon mid season
Not Joe Mantiply! He gave such a great contribution for the the team. Can you believe he kept that insane 0.00 ERA with the Yankees.
He throws like 70 MPH I’m pretty sure I can throw harder than him.
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Eovaldi be able to pitch this year??? If so I can see the angels picking him up for rotation depth
Richards
Shoemaker
Skaggs
Nolasco
Eovaldi/Meyers/Chavez