The Pirates have returned lefty reliever and Rule 5 pick Tyler Webb to the Yankees, the Yankees have announced. An impending transaction involving Webb seemed inevitable yesterday, when the Pirates opted to place Tyler Glasnow in their rotation and gave Wade LeBlanc and former rotation candidate Trevor Williams the last two spots in their bullpen.
The 26-year-old Webb did his best to impress the Pirates in camp, posting a 2.77 ERA with 11 strikeouts and just one walk in 13 innings. But his chances of making the team seemed limited given the Bucs’ heavily left-handed bullpen, which currently includes Felipe Rivero, Antonio Bastardo and LeBlanc, along with closer Tony Watson. Webb posted a 3.59 ERA, 10.2 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 in 72 2/3 innings with the Yankees’ Triple-A affiliate in 2016.
Yanks are getting back all their guys.
Are padres keeping Luis Torrens????
Looks like it, they are planning on keeping 3 catchers with Hedges as the starter, Bethancourt as a super utility guy/ backup and Torrens as the third catcher/ emergency catcher.
They actually have 4 catchers on their roster now, they selected another catcher’s contract today. I doubt the Padres can afford to have 4 active spots tied into the catcher position, then again it is the Padres…
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shame he isn’t staying.. he was one of the more impressive pen options this spring
These are quibbles, but…I really don’t get what the Pirates are doing with these final roster choices.
Glasnow isn’t ready, there are serious holes in his game. If they think it’s better to have Searage work with him everyday instead of working these kinks out in Indy, OK.
But, why send a career starter in Trevor Williams to the bullpen instead of to AAA to stay stretched out as the #6 starter ready to step into the rotation? Why cut Hughes to keep a young starter in the bullpen? Why get rid of Webb?
Wade LeBlanc? Why?
Reality setting in for Pirates’ Fans.
Hyped Minor League talent just isn’t ready to fully replace the lack of ML depth.
This is the path the FO chose.
2017 Pirates = a competent, but not competitive, “tweener” club.
LOL. You mean we aren’t going to catch the Cubs? Next, you’ll be telling me there is no Santa Clause.
You aren’t getting Meadows. Get over it.
I’m telling you the Pirates are a .500 team.
I’m well aware the Meadows to the Sox ship sailed long ago.
Like the Pirates the White Sox made a choice. Both teams, and their fans, will have to live with it.
Glasnow has nothing to prove in AAA. He needs Searage and the 5 spot will be a great place for him.
They can always piggyback him w/ Williams. Don’t act like Williams will now be in the pen for eternity.
As for Hughes, he was going to cost almost $3 mill. You can replace that trainwreck on the cheap.
Feel free to sleep on the Buccos if you wish, but their rotation is already better than last years, Rivero/Watson will be a solid pen, the offense was already solid, and there is no way Cutch and Cole will play as poorly.
And what “Hyped” talent isn’t ready? Taillon? Kuhl? Bell?
Only waiting on Meadows and Glasnow gets his shot this year.
Bell hasn’t impressed this spring but I hope that’s a byproduct of the knee injury. Personally I’d have him start the year on the DL and see what Osuna can do in the show.
Bell never got going. Send him down to Indy for a week, if need be. Jaso has been OK this spring and you might as well see if Osuna can do it in the real games.
Working with Searage may well be better for Glasnow than going to Indy, but I see this “Glasnow has nothing to prove in AAA” narrative all over the place, and it’s not true.
He never proved he could hold runners and he never proved he could cut down his walk rate and his MLB success is threatened by not being able to hold runners and walking too many batters.
If they think they can fix him in the bigs, well, I’ll defer to their track record with pitchers, but it’s usually not the best place to learn on the job.
I’m more than willing to be patient with Glasnow. I want the goal to be making into a #1 starter, not a #5 starter.
Regarding the “hyped” talent comment, he’s just sad that the Pirates won’t ship a busload of said hyped talent for his very very good, but not great pitcher.
If he can cut his walks, he’ll make it. Electric stuff, imposing frame, competes… it’s just his control issues, and based on the success we had with pre-2016 Liriano, Feliz, and Volquez, there’s hope he can find it with Ray.
You know who else can’t hold runners? Jon Lester.
Thx for Ramirez and Mcguire How’s Hutchy making out for you
Some FO moves are definitely confusing leading to what I honestly believe will be a 75-win season (if that). You can’t “win” every trade or always step right, but when you have limited resources, you do have to do better. I don’t think the FO has done that in preparation for 2017. I just hope that the mis-steps don’t derail player development. That would be worse than losing 100 games.
I feel like the issues stemming from the Pirates come from the front office. I’m not saying they should be making “blockbuster trade deals.” Just simple stuff like this. I don’t see the purpose in not keeping this guy, as opposed to keeping others.