Here are the latest minor moves:
- Righty Ryan Webb has joined the Brewers on a minor-league deal, the team announced. He’ll come to MLB camp next spring in hopes of earning a spot in the Milwaukee pen. The 30-year-old allowed 10 earned runs on 27 hits in his 18 appearances last year with the Rays, but otherwise maintained the same sort of peripherals that have allowed him to compile nearly 400 innings of 3.43 ERA ball as a big leaguer.
Earlier Updates
- The Red Sox have added third baseman Matt Dominguez on a minor-league deal, 1500ESPN’s Darren Wolfson reports on Twitter. Dominguez receives an invitation to MLB camp next spring. Still just 27, Dominguez had a short return to the majors last year with the Blue Jays but hasn’t seen substantial time at the game’s highest level since a disappointing 2014 campaign with the Astros. He posted a .269/.315/.421 batting line with 18 long balls at Triple-A last year with the Toronto organization.
- Infielder Emmanuel Burriss is heading to the Nationals on a minors pact, Jon Heyman of Fan Rag tweets. He, too, gets a spring invite, Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post adds on Twitter. The 31-year-old is a D.C. native who spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons with the Nats organization, only briefly cracking the majors. He struggled in brief time in the bigs last year with the Phillies, and hit .263/.296/.309 over his 187 plate appearances at Triple-A.
- Japan’s Orix Buffaloes have added three former major league hurlers, per Yahoo Japan (h/t NPB on Reddit, on Twitter). Lefty Phil Coke will join righties Matt West and Gonzalez Germen in Nippon Professional Baseball. West has the least major league experience of the bunch, but put up a 2.33 ERA with 7.4 K/9 and 1.6 BB/9 over 46 1/3 innings last year and only just turned 28. Coke, 34, is a hard-throwing southpaw who has spent a fair bit of time in the majors — and on the pages of MLBTR. He threw ten major league frames last year, continuing a streak of appearing in nine-straight MLB campaigns. The 29-year-old Germen had posted solid results upon arriving with the Rockies in the middle of the 2015 season, though his peripherals did not support the 3.86 ERA. He came back to earth in his 40 2/3 innings in 2016, posting a 5.31 ERA with 7.1 K/9 and 5.5 BB/9.
Thank God! I was really worried the Phillies were going to re-sign Burris! He is the worst!
He is pretty terrible. I am still traumatized by all the chances the Giants gave him, and even more confused about why other teams gave him chances after that.
What are you talking about? Burriss had a stellar +2 Defensive Runs Saved in 4 innings at 1B last year…that must be some kind of record.
Scott Diamond signs with the SK Wyverns on a one-year deal worth an estimated 700 million Won (600,000 USD) yesterday. Via: m.sports.naver.com/kbaseball/news/read.nhn?oid=410…
Hire this man.
If you hired him, who would be Scott Diamond’s agent?
Why is a Minneapolis/St Paul guy scooping Boston?
From the tweet, it sounds like the Twins were looking at Dominguez, too. Or maybe that is how he complete all free agent tweets ” FA RP Aroldis Chapman is signing with the Yankees, not the #MNTwins”
Glad Phil Coke can get an opportunity overseas
Gonzalez Germen. I’ll miss watching him pitch only because you knew that one of 3 things would happen with each batter: strikeout, walk or homer. He is like the pitching version of Adam Dunn.