Here are the latest minor league moves from around baseball. All transactions were reported by Matt Eddy of Baseball America, unless otherwise cited.
- The Padres have released reliever Tom Wilhelmsen, whom they signed to a minor league contract last month. Before the Padres parted with him, Wilhelmsen tossed four innings of four-run ball during the exhibition season. Wilhelmsen was highly successful as a Mariner from 2011-15, a stretch in which he was their closer at times, but the right-hander has seen his career go off the rails since then. The 34-year-old combined for 72 2/3 innings of 5.94 ERA ball and posted 5.57 K/9 against 3.84 BB/9, with a strong 50.4 percent groundball rate, from 2016-17 as a member of the Mariners, Rangers and Diamondbacks.
- The White Sox have released righty Michael Ynoa. The 26-year-old cracked the majors with the ChiSox in each of the previous two seasons, tossing 59 innings and posting a 4.42 ERA with 8.08 K/9, 5.95 BB/9 and a 36.8 percent grounder rate. Chicago outrighted Ynoa last summer, but he went on to re-sign with the organization in the fall.
Michael Ynoa was named the #1 Best Latino Prospect of 2008. Don’t sleep on his arm.
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Where were you last year when Kyle was going through his troubles?
Sack lodge, great insight from 10 years ago! Relevant? I’m…not so much.
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Ynoa is definitely a test case for the idea that pitchers who get TJS at a young age recover inherently worse from it. I’ve seen this idea advanced lately on some biomechanics/pitching mechanics websites. Ynoa was 18 when he had his and most scouts said the stuff never came back. He’s still really young – just 26 but it looks like he may end up on the scrap heap of highly-touted pitching prospects who couldn’t get through the injury nexus.
Hate to see it but Tom the Bartender may be done.