Here are Tuesday’s minor moves from around the league…
- The Mariners announced 22 players that have received non-roster invitations to Major League Spring Training. Many of the minor league deals in that announcement have already been reported, though it’s of note that Seattle will bring veteran catcher Tuffy Gosewisch back to the organization. Right-handers Ryan Garton (who was outrighted off the 40-man roster in October) and Ryan Cook (who missed 2017 due to Tommy John surgery) will both be in big league camp as well. The 34-year-old Gosewisch went just 2-for-28 with the Mariners last season, though one of those two hits was a homer. He’s a career .190/.228/.271 hitter in 447 MLB plate appearances, though he’s also slashed a drastically superior .258/.318/.406 in his Triple-A career. Garton, 28, has a 4.55 ERA with 7.2 K/9, 2.5 BB/9 and a 44 percent ground-ball rate in 61 1/3 innings between the Rays and Mariners over the past two seasons. Cook, of course, was briefly the closer in Oakland and looked like one of the game’s more promising young relievers in 2012-13. He’s pitched just 8 2/3 innings in the Majors dating back to Opening Day 2015 due to injuries, however.
- The Angels have granted catcher Curt Casali his release from the organization, tweets Chris Cotillo of SB Nation. The former Rays backstop signed a minor league pact with the Halos earlier this winter with the intent of competing for a backup job in Spring Training, but those hopes were dashed when the Angels signed Rene Rivera to a Major League deal to pair with 2017 Gold Glove winner Martin Maldonado. Casali will again hit free agency in search of a new landing spot.
- Cotillo also tweets that righty Gonzalez Germen is signing a minors pact with the White Sox after spending the past year in Japan. Germen, 30, posted a 2.68 ERA with 9.8 K/9 against 4.6 BB/9 in 47 innings of relief in his lone season in Japan, where he pitched for the Orix Buffaloes. In parts of four MLB seasons between the Rockies, Mets and Cubs, he’s worked to a 4.63 ERA with 129 strikeouts against 81 walks over the life of 144 innings.
His name is Gonzalez German? That’s a name
The Productive Outs guys has a good time with that one.
German: Hair Mahn. Not unusual. You need to travel more.
It’s still a name, no matter how it’s pronounced
How many places you’ve been where Gonzalez is a common first name?
It would make more sense backwards: German Gonzalez
Glad everyone thinks the every language/culture should mirror that of English/US
Yeah he probably doesn’t even watch rick and morty
A “”German Gonzales”” sounds like a shot, of some kind, that is guaranteed to knock you for a loop! You know, they kind of drink you only order on a dare or by loosing a bet.
Fix the redirects. Mobile site is unusable.
Ryan cook was this young up and coming relief pitcher, and then he got Injured……every season since. What a shame, he’s still somewhat young though
Probably at a tattoo parlour getting a consultation on a full neck tattoo.
Every language shouldnt mirror English, but that is the perspective of people in English speaking countries and shouldn’t be dismissed as some sort of soft bigotry .
Quite a reach to accuse some knucklehead of bigotry whose attempting to make a funny about a guy who happens to have a common last name as his first name. No wonder your favorite local supermarket is always out of VCR cleaner, Preparation H & Adult diapers.
Apparently my invite got lost in the mail
Getting real tired of seeing my Wilmette Cubs fan GM signing ex-cubbies to join Sox org. unless it’s Kris Bryant quit signing flubbie castaways Rick. How did Jacob Turner & Tony Campana work out?
Seeing as they were signed as nothing more than depth pieces, I’d say they worked out as well as expected…