The Blue Jays announced that they’ve designated left-hander Chad Girodo for assignment in order to create roster space for fellow southpaw J.P. Howell, whose one-year, $3MM deal has now been announced by the team.
Girodo just turned 26 three days ago and is coming off a season in which he made his Major League debut with the Jays. In 10 1/3 big league innings, the former ninth-rounder allowed five runs (4.35 ERA) on 11 hits and two walks with five strikeouts. His work in Triple-A Buffalo resulted in a 3.79 ERA with 6.1 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and a 57.2 percent ground-ball rate. Including both his Major League and Minor League work, Girodo yielded a .263/.289/.419 batting line to left-handed hitters and a much more alarming .347/.417/.584 slash to right-handed opponents.
Man they sure left that chad hanging
horrible …
No.
I’m kind of surprised by this. He wasn’t bad last year. Not great either, but I would have thought they’d keep all of the lefty relievers they could.
KEEP HIM
hope the Jay’s find a way to keep him. He could be a great LOOGY. Had great minor league numbers. It’s hard to give a guy 10 innings and give up on him.
Once the rumours began about Howell/Smith, I was trying to figure out who was going to get DFA’d to make the room, I knew for sure it would be Girodo, but was surprised it was Jiminez and not Ceciliani….